Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 19
Film releases
- 2008 - The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior, an American fantasy adventure direct-to-DVD prequel film to the 2002 film The Scorpion King
- 2011 - Fright Night, a remake of the 1985 original of the same name.
Television series
- 2006 - Phil of the Future, an American science fiction situation comedy, finishes airing on Disney Channel,
Births
- 1921 - Gene Roddenberry (d. 1991), an American screenwriter, producer and futurist, and creator of Star Trek
Deaths
- 1967 - Hugo Gernsback (b. 1884), a Luxembourg-American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publishing the first science fiction magazine and having the Hugo Awards named after him
- 2009 - Donald M. Grant (d. 1927), an American publisher and winner of five World Fantasy Awards