Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 4
Television series
- 1961 - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, an American horror, mystery, science fiction, and drama television series created by Merwin Gerard, finishes airing on ABC
Births
- 1928 - Patrick Tilley, a British science fiction author
- 1961 - Richard Garriott, a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur best known as his alter ego Lord British in the Ultima series
Deaths
- 1971 - August Derleth (b. 1909), an American writer and anthologist best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft
- 2005 - Chris Bunch (b. 1943), an American science fiction, fantasy, and television writer
- 2008 - Possible death date of Thomas Disch (b. 1940), an American science fiction author and poet
Anniversaries and events
- 1939 - The 1st World Science Fiction Convention concludes in Caravan Hall in New York City