Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 12
Film releases
- 1961 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, an American science fiction film
- 1985 - Explorers, a science fiction fantasy film targeted at a family audience
- 2009 - Meteor, a disaster science fiction film, airs the first of two parts on NBC
Television series
- 1986 - Terrahawks, a British science fiction television series, finishes airing on ITV
Births
- 1933 - Donald E. Westlake (d. 2008), an American crime fiction, comic caper, and science fiction writer
- 1946 - Charles R. Saunders, an African American science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction author and journalist
- 1947 - Hiroshi Aramata, a Japanese science fiction and fantasy author, translator, and screenplay writer
- 1947 - Carl Lundgren, an American artist and illustrator primarily known for his 1960s-era rock posters and fantasy art
- 1948 - Ben Burtt, an American sound designer for the films Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- 1964 - Serge Lehman, the main pseudonym of the French science fiction writer Pascal Fréjean
- 1967 - Adam Johnson, an American fiction and science fiction writer
- 1979 - Dmitry Glukhovsky, a Russian author and journalist
Deaths
- 1978 - Jay Williams (b. 1914), an American science fiction and history author
- 1999 - Mircea Nedelciu (b. 1950), a Romanian short-story writer, novelist, essayist and literary critic
- 2009 - Charles N. Brown (b. 1937), the co-founder and editor of Locus