Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 25

April 25:

Television series
 * 2003 - John Doe, an American science fiction television series, finishes airing on Fox

Births
 * 1907 - Michael Harrison (d. 1991), the pen name of English detective fiction and fantasy author Maurice Desmond Rohan
 * 1915 - Mort Weisinger (d. 1978), an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s
 * 1945 - Richard C. Hoagland, an American author and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars and other related topics
 * 1950 - Peter Jurasik, an American actor best known for his role as Londo Mollari in the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5

Deaths
 * 1911 - Emilio Salgari (b. 1862), an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy
 * 1998 - Clifford D. Simak (b. 1904), an American science fiction writer

Anniversaries and events
 * 1987 - Brick Bradford, a science fiction comic strip created by writer William Ritt, finishes serialization