Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 9
Film releases
- 1982 - Tron, an American action science fiction film
- 2010 - Despicable Me
- 2010 - Predators, an American science fiction, action and horror film directed by Nimród Antal
Births
- 1909 - Basil Wolverton (d. 1978), an American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer-artist
- 1944 - Glen Cook, an American science fiction and fantasy author
- 1945 - Dean Koontz, an American horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire author
- 1953 - Thomas Ligotti, an American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure
- 1957 - Todd Lockwood, an American artist specializing in fantasy and science fiction illustration
Deaths
- 2005 - Byron Preiss (b. 1953), an American writer, editor and publisher