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April 5:

Film releases
 * 1962 - Moon Pilot, a science fiction satirical comedy film
 * 1974 - The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, a fantasy film starring John Phillip Law as Sinbad

Television and web series
 * 1992 - Mann & Machine, an American science fiction/police drama series, begins airing on NBC
 * 2008 - The first episode of Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction, a science fiction action-comedy machinima series, is released on the Rooster Teeth website

Births
 * 1916 - Bernard Baily (d. 1996), an American comic book artist, publisher, and editor best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters the Spectre and Hourman
 * 1917 - Robert Bloch (d. 1994), a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction
 * 1935 - H. M. Hoover, a children's science fiction book author
 * 1944 - Ann Maxwell, an American author of science fiction, historical fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense works
 * 1956 - Aleksandr Bushkov, a best-selling Russian author who has written books in the genres of science fiction, crime fiction, popular history and non-fiction

Deaths
 * 1986 - Manly Wade Wellman (b. 1903), an American writer in the science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction genres
 * 2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi (b. 1938), a prominent Kannada writer and novelist