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-January-
January 2
1920: Author Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR.
January 3
1892: Author John Ronald Reuel Tolkien born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
January 4
1785: Folklorist Jacob Grimm born in Hanau, Germany.
1946: Author Ramsey Campbell born in Liverpool, England.
1960: Albert Camus dies in an auto accident in France.
January 8
1944: Author Terry Brooks born in Sterling, Ill.
1977: Actress and author Amber Benson born Birmingham, Alabama.
January 11
1919: Romania annexes Transylvania.
1972: Actor Marc Blucas born in Butler, Pennsylvania.
January 12
1965: Musician Rob Zombie born in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
January 13
1938: Actor Willima B. Davis born in Toronto, Ontario.
1977: Actor Orlando Bloom born in Canterbury, Kent, England.
January 15
1990: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan published.
January 16
1946: Author Graham Masterton born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1948: Director John Carpenter born in Carthage, New York.
January 17
1820: Anne Brontë born.
1964: Author T. H. White dies of heart failure aboard an ocean liner in Athens, Greece.
January 19
1809: Author Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston.
January 20
1959: Author Robert Anthony Salvatore born in Leominster, Massachusetts.
January 21
1926: Herculean actor Steve Reeves born in Glasgow, Montana.
January 22
1959: Actress Linda Blair born in St. Louis, Missouri.
January 23
1923: Author Walter M. Miller, Jr. born in New Smyma Beach, Florida.
1939: Fantasy artists Greg and Tim Hildebrandt born in Detroit, Michigan.
January 24
1927: Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
January 25
1943: Director Tobe Hooper born in Austin, Texas.
January 29
1845: The New York Evening Mirror becomes the first to publish "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
January 30
1975: Musician Yumi "Sue" Yoshimura born in Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan.
-February-
February 1
1851: Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley dies in London, England, due to a brain tumor.
1969: Actor Brian Krause born El Toro, California.
February 2
1995: Actor Donald Pleasence dies in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France, due to complications from heart valve replacement surgery.
February 4
1940: Writer and director George A Romero born in New York, New York.
1969: Actress Brandy Ledford born in Denver, Colorado.
February 5
1940: Artist H. R. Giger born in Chur, Switzerland.
February 8
1974: Actor Seth Green born in Overbrook Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
February 9
1928: Artist Frank Frazetta born in Brooklyn, New York.
February 11
1963: Poet, novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London, England.
February 12
1950: Actor Michael Ironside born in Toronto, Ontario.
February 15
1971: Actress Renee O'Conner born in Katy, Texas.
February 16
1957: Actor, director, author LeVar Burton born in Landstuhl, West Germany.
February 17
1912: Author Andre Alice Norton born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio.
February 18
1962: Scream Queen Julie Strain born Concord, California.
February 19
1963: Author Laura Hamilton born in Heber Springs, Arkansas.
February 20
1926: Author Richard Matheson born in Allendale, New Jersey.
1954: Actor Anthony Head born in Camden, London, England.
February 22
1925: Artist Edward Gorey born in Chicago, Illinois. Note: some list birthday as Feb. 25. Confirmation needed.
1968: Actress Jeri Lynn Ryan born in Munich, Germany.
February 25
1917: Author Anthony Burgess born in Manchester, England.
1966: Actor Alexis Denisof born in Salisbury, Maryland.
1971: Actor Sean Astin born in Santa Monica, California.
February 26
1918: Author Theodore Sturgeon born as Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York.
-March-
March 1
1692: The Salem Witch Trials begin in Salem, Massachesetts.
March 2
1943: Author Peter Straub born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1982: Author Philip Kindred Dick died of heart failure in Santa Ana, California.
March 3
1924: H. P. Lovecraft marries Sonia Haft Shifirkin Greene.
March 5
1942: Author Michael Resnick born in Chicago, Illinois.
March 6
1981: Actress Ellen Muth born in Milford, Connecticut.
March 10
1982: Actress Katharine Isabelle born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
March 15
1936: Author H. P. Lovecraft dies in Providence, Rhode Island, of intestinal cancer.
1943: Director David Cronenberg born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1955: Rocker, writer, director Dee Snider born in Massapequa, New York.
March 16
1850: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne published.
1948: Author Margaret Weis born in Independence, Missouri.
March 20
1979: Actress Bianca Jasmine Lawson born in Los Angeles, California.
March 22
1931: Actor William Shatner born in Montreal, Quebec.
March 23
1947: Author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough born Kansas City, Kansas.
March 24
1974: Actress Alyson Hannigan born in Washington, D.C.
March 26
1985: Actress Keira Christina Knightley born in Teddington, Middlesex, England.
March 27
1962: Author Kevin J. Anderson (K. J. Anderson) born in Oregon, Wisconsin.
1963: Director Quentin Jerome Tarantino born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1971: Actor Nathan Fillion born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (charity: Kids Need to Read)
March 29
1957: Actor Christopher Lambert born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York.
1968: Actress Lucy Lawless born in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand.
March 30
1930: Actor John Astin born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1943: Author Dennis Etchison born in Stockton, California.
-April-
April 4
1948: Author Dan Simmons born in Peoria, Illinois.
April 5
1917: Author Robert Bloch born in Chicago, Illinois.
April 6
1849: British Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse born in Rome, Italy.
April 8
1943: Author James Herbert born in London, England.
1973: Actress Emma Caulfield born in San Diego, California.
April 12
1971: Actor Nicholas Brendon born in Los Angeles, California, three minutes after his twin brother.
1971: Actress Shannen Doherty born in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 14
1977: Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar born in New York, New York.
April 18
1969: Author Keith R. A. DeCandido born in New York, New York.
April 20
1939: Author Peter S. Beagle born in New York, New York.
April 25
1969: Actress Gina Torres born in Manhattan, New York.
April 26
1912: Author Alfred Elton van Vogt born in Edenburg, Manitoba, Canada.
April 28
1948: Author Terence David John Pratchett born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.
-May-
May 4
1977: Actress Emily Perkins born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
May 7
1922: Actor Darren McGavin born in San Joaquin, California.
1968: Actress Traci Lords born in Steubenville, Ohio.
May 9
1920: Author Richard Adams born in Newbury, Berkshire.
1969: Actress Hudson Leick born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 13
1947: Author Stephen Reeder Donaldson born in Cleveland, Ohio.
May 14
1962: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is published.
May 16
1969: Actor David Boreanaz born.
May 21
1974: Actress Fairuza Balk born in Point Reyes, California.
May 25
1967: Author Poppy Z. Brite born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
May 26
1897: Bram Stoker's novel Dracula published. With an initial print run of 3,000 copies, the book was bound in yellow cloth with red lettering, and priced at six shillings.
1963: Author Caitlin Rebekah Kiernan born in Skerries, Ireland, north of Dublin.
May 27
1911: Actor Vincent Price born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1958: Scream Queen Linnea Quigley born in Davenport, Iowa.
May 29
1906: Author Terence Hanbury White born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
-June-
June 2
1740: Author Marquis de Sade born in Paris, France.
1957: Author Dr. Sara Warneke born in Penola, South Australia. Dr. Warneke is best known under the pseudonym Sara Douglass.
1982: Actress Jewel Staite born in White Rock, British Columbia.
June 3
1930: Author Marion Zimmer Bradley born in Albany, New York.
June 6
1949: 1984 by George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) published.
June 9
1954: Author Gregory Maguire born in Albany, New York.
1981: Actress Natalie Portman born in Jerusalem, Israel.
June 11
2006: Artist Tim Hildebrandt died.
June 13
1893: Author Dorothy Leigh Sayers born in Oxford, England.
1945: Author Whitley Strieber born in San Antonio, Texas.
June 16
1938: Joyce Carol Oates born in Lockport, New York.
June 19
1999: Stephen King hit by a van driven by Bryan Smith.
June 20
1968: Director Robert Rodriguez born in San Antonio, Texas.
June 22
1958: Actor Bruce Campbell born in Birmingham, Michigan.
June 23
1964: Writer, Producer, Director Joss Whedon born in New York, New York.
1972: Actress Selma Blair born in Southfield, Michigan.
June 24
1950: Author Mercedes Lackey born in New York, New York.
June 26
1931: Author Colin Wilson born in Leicester.
June 27
1941: Author James P. Hogan born in London, United Kingdom.
1959: Comic author and artist Dan Jurgens born.
1974: Actor Christian Kane born in Dallas, Texas.
1975: Actor Tobey Maguire born in Santa Monica, California.
-July-
July 2
1950: Author Stephen R. Lawhead born in Kearney, Nebraska.
July 3
1883: Franz Kafka born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1970: Actress Shawnee Smith born in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
July 4
1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts.
July 7
1907: Author Robert Anson Heinlein born in Butler, Missouri.
1931: Author David Eddings born in Spokane, Washington.
July 9
1941: Author Nancy Farmer born in Phoenix, Arizona.
1944: Author Glen Cook born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1945: Author Dean Ray Koontz born in Everett, Pennsylvania.
July 17
1952: Author Robert R. McCammon born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1954: Author J. Michael Straczynski born in Paterson, New Jersey.
1971: Author Cory Doctorow born in Ontario, Canada.
July 23
1888: Author Raymond Chandler born in Chicago, Illinois.
1947: Editor, author Gardner Dozois born in Salem, Massachusetts.
1970: Actress Charisma Carpenter born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
July 24
1981: Actress Summer Glau born in San Antonio, Texas.
July 27
1938: Author Gary Gygax born in Chicago, Illinois.
July 29
1954: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien first published.
July 31
1965: Author Joanne (J. K.) Rowling born in Yate, South Gloucestershire, England.
-August-
August 4
1975: Actor Andy Hallett born in Osterville, Massachusetts.
August 6
1934: Author Piers Anthony born in Oxford, England.
August 7
1933: Author Jerry Pournelle born.
1942: Actor Tobin Bell born in Queens, New York.
1960: Actor David William Duchovny born in New York, New York.
August 8
1965: Author Shirley Jackson dies.
August 9
1968: Actress Gillian Leigh Anderson born in Chicago, Illinois.
August 11
1995: Actor Peter Cushing dies.
August 13
1899: Director Alfred Hitchcock born in Leytonstone (London), England.
1946: Author H. G. Wells dies of liver cancer (some reports indicate diabetes).
August 15
1835: Edgar Allan Poe marries his cousin Virginia Clemm.
August 19
1921: Writer/producer Eugene Wesley Roddenberry born in El Paso, Texas.
August 20
1890: Author H. P. Lovecraft born in Providence, Rhode Island.
1947: Artist Alan Lee born in Dartmoor, Devon, England.
1951: Author Greg Bear born in San Diego, California.
1961: Author Greg Egan born in Perth, Western Australia.
1962: Actor James Marsters born in Greenville, California.
August 22
1920: Author Ray Bradbury born in Waukegan, Illinois.
August 30
1797: Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born in London, England.
-September-
September 1
1951: Author Timothy Zahn born in Chicago, Illinois.
September 2
1964: Actor Keanu Reeves born in Beirut, Lebanon.
1966: Actress Salma Hayek born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.
September 5
1973: Actress Rose McGowan born in Florence, Italy.
September 11
1885: Author D. H. Lawrence born.
1958: Actress Roxann Dawson born in Los Angeles, California.
September 13
1961: Author Tom Loft born in London, England.
1969: Cartoon Scooby Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS.
September 15
1977: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien published.
September 16
1970: Author Nick Sagan born in Boston, Massachusetss.
2007: Author Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.) died due to complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis), i.e. thickening of the walls of the heart.
September 17
1927: Actor Roddy McDowell born in Herne Hill, London, England.
1949: Actress Cassandra Peterson born in Manhattan, Kansas.
September 18
1973: Musician Ami "Jane" Onuki born in Machida, Tokyo.
September 19
1947: Author Tanith Lee born in the United Kingdom.
September 20
1863: German folklorist Jacob Grimm died.
September 21
1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien published.
1947: Author Steven King born in Portland, Maine.
September 22
1971: Author Elizabeth Bear born in Hartford, Connecticut.
September 23
2000: Bryan Smith found dead in bed at his home. Authorities estimate he had been dead for approximately three days before he was found. Smith gained notority for hitting Stephen King with his Dodge Van in 1999.
September 24
1958: Actor Kevin Sorbo born in Mound, Minnesota.
September 25
1951: Actor Mark Hamill born in Concord, California.
September 26
1888: Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1970: Actress Sheri Moon (Zombie) born in San Jose, California.
September 28
1066: The Normans conquer England.
September 30
1953: Writer S. M. Stirling born in Metz, Alsace, France.
-October-
October 2
1948: Actor Avery Brooks born in Evansville, Indiana.
1974: Actress Michelle Krusiec born in Fallon, Nevada.
1980: Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien first published.
October 3
1973: Actress Neve Campbell born in Guelph, Ontario.
October 4
1941: Author Anne Rice born in New Orleans as Howard Allen O'Brien.
October 5
1919: Actor Donald Pleasence born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
1960: Author Brian Hodge born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
October 6
1950: Author David Brin born in Glendale, California.
October 7
1849: Author Edgar Allan Poe died.
October 9
1964: Director, writer Guillermo del Toro born in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico.
October 11
1972: Actress Claudia Lee Black born in Sydney, Australia.
1985: Actress Michelle Trachtenberg born in New York, New York.
October 12
1875: Author, mystic Aleister Crowley born.
October 13
1956: Producer, director, screenwriter Chris Carter born in Bellflower, California.
October 14
1953: Author Richard Christian Matheson born.
October 15
1844: Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche born.
October 17
1948: Author James Oliver Rigney, Jr. is born in Charleston, South Carolina. Rigney is best known under the pseudonym of Robert Jordan.
October 20
1955: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien first published.
October 23
1955: Composer Graeme Revell born in Auckland, New Zealand.
1959: Writer, director Sam Raimi born in Royal Oak, Michigan.
October 24
1991: Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry dies of heart failure.
October 25
1993: Actor Vincent Price dies in Los Angeles, CA, due to lung cancer.
October 26
1971: Author Jim Butcher born in Independence, Missouri.
October 27
1932: Poet Sylvia Path born in Boston, Massachusetts.
October 30
1950: Editor and author Douglas E. Winter born in St. Louis, Missouri.
October 31
1959: Author Neal Stephenson born in Fort Meade, Maryland.
1961: Director Peter Jackson born in Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand.
-November-
November 2
1960: Obscenity trial over Lady Chatterly's Lover ends with the acquittal of Penguin Books.
November 6
2000: Author Lyon Sprague de Camp dies in Plano, Texas.
November 7
1913: Author Albert Camus born. Best known for The Plague.
November 8
1847: Author Bram Stoker born in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland.
1932: Author Ben Bova born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 11
1922: Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1954: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien first published.
November 13
1957: Author Stephen Baxter born in Liverpool, England.
November 16
1984: Actress Kimberly J. Brown born in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
November 17
1983: Author Christopher Paolini born in Southern California.
November 19
1963: Actress Terry Farrell born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
November 20
1983: An estimated 100 million people watch the made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting a nuclear war and its aftermath on the United States.
1984: SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is founded.
November 21
1694: Author, philosopher François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire born in Paris, France.
1924: Author, editor Christopher Reuel Tolkien born in Leeds, England.
November 22
1958: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis dies in Los Angeles, California.
November 25
1993: Author Anthony Burgess dies in London, England.
November 26
1862: Alice's Adventures Under Ground is sent as a Christmas present to Alice Liddell from Charles Lutwidge. This story is later published as Alice in Wonderland with Lutwidge using the name Lewis Carroll as a pseudonym.
1955: Author Tracy Hickman born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
November 27
1907: Author Lyon Sprague de Camp born in New York, New York.
November 28
1582: William Shakespeare, 18, marries Anne Hathaway, 26.
November 29
1918: Author Madeleine L'Engle born in New York, New York.
November 30
1985: Actress Kaley Cuoco born in Camarillo, California.
-December-
December 2
1814: Author Marquis de Sade died in Charenton, France.
December 3
1973: Actress Holly Marie Combs born in San Diego, California.
December 5
1976: Actress Amy Acker born in Dallas, Texas.
December 9
1608: Poet John Milton born.
December 10
1830: Poet Emily Dickinson born.
December 14
1919: Author Shirley Jackson born in San Francisco, California.
December 15
1922: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land published.
December 16
1917: Author Sir Arthur C. Clarke born in Minehead, Somerset, England.
1928: Author Philip Kindred Dick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte Dick, born in Chicago, Illinois. Jane died three weeks later.
December 17
1843: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens published. Some reports indicate that December 19 is the correct date.
1944: Author Jack Chalker born in Baltimore, Maryland.
December 18
1939: Author Michael John Moorcock born in London, England.
1980: Singer Christina María Aguilera born in Staten Island, New York.
December 19
1969: Actress Kristy Swanson born in Mission Viejo, California.
1972: Actress Alyssa Milano born in Brooklyn, New York.
December 20
1952: Actress Jenny Agutter born in Taunton, Somerset, England. Portrayed Jessica 6 in "Logan's Run" and later Nurse Alex in "American Werewolf in London".
1970: Actress Nicole de Boer born in Toronto, Ontario.
December 22
1968: Actress Dina Meyer born in Queens, New York.
1974: Actress Heather Donahue born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
December 25
1899: Actor Humphry Bogart born.
December 26
1891: Author Henry Miller born.
1964: Author Elizabeth Johnson Kostova born in New London, Connecticut.
December 27
1975: Actress Heather O'Rourke born in San Diego, California.
December 28
1980: Actress Vanessa Ferlito born in Brooklyn, New York.
December 30
1816: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly wed. The pair had eloped in July 1814, but because Shelley was already married they were unable to marry for two years, until the death of Shelley's wife.
1980: Actress Eliza Dushku born in Boston, MA.
Last Update: 9-9-2008
