Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/October/October 19
Book releases
- 2010 - Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson
- 2010 - Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 2010 - Writers of the Future Volume XXVI edited by K. D. Wentworth
Television series
- 1998 - The New Addams Family, a Canadian sitcom, begins airing on YTV and Fox Family
Births
- 1893 - Harl Vincent (d. 1968), the pen name of Harold Vincent Schoepflin, an American mechanical engineer and science fiction writer
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias (d. 1974), a Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and diplomat
- 1918 - Russell Kirk (d. 1994), an American political theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author