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April 21:

Film releases
 * 2005 - 9, a computer animated short film by Shane Acker as a student project at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
 * 2006 - Una película de huevos, an animated Mexican feature film
 * 2009 - The Caprica pilot movie is released on DVD

Births
 * 1933 - Jim Harmon (d. 2010), an American short story author and popular culture historian
 * 1963 - Hiroe Suga, a Japanese science fiction and mystery writer
 * 1965 - Fiona Kelleghan, an American academic and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy

Deaths
 * 1910 - Mark Twain (b. 1835), an American author and humorist
 * 1971 - George Fielding Eliot (b. 1894), an American author