Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 16
Film releases
- 1999 - The Thirteenth Floor, a science fiction film directed by Josef Rusnak
- 2007 - Spider-Man 3 premiers in Tokyo
Births
- 1922 - Samuel Youd. a British science fiction author
- 1962 - Kathryn Cramer, an American science fiction author, editor, and literary critic
Deaths
- 1945 - Malcolm Jameson (b. 1891), an American science fiction author
- 1984 - Byron Haskin (b. 1899), an American film and television director best known for directing 1953's The War of the Worlds
Anniversaries and events
- 2007 - The Road, a post-apocalyptic tale by Cormac McCarthy, receives the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
- 2007 - Ray Bradbury receives a special citation from The Pulitzer Board "for his distinguished, prolific, and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy."