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April 9:

Film releases
 * 2004 - Ella Enchanted, a fairy tale-comedy film

Television series
 * 1955 - Science Fiction Theatre, a science fiction anthology series, begins airing in first-run syndication
 * 1967 - Ultraman, a Japanese science fiction tokusatsu series, finishes airing on TBS

Births
 * 1911 - George O. Smith (d. 1981), an American science fiction author
 * 1915 - Leonard Wibberley (d. 1983), a prolific and versatile Irish-American science fiction, mystery, and young adult author
 * 1937 - Barrington J. Bayley (d. 2008), an English science fiction writer
 * 1949 - Stephen Hickman, an award-winning American artist, illustrator, sculptor, and author best known for his work in science fiction and fantasy art
 * 1964 - Margaret Peterson Haddix, an American author of science fiction books for young adults

Deaths
 * 1909 - Paschal Grousset (b. 1844), a French politician, journalist, translator, and science fiction writer
 * 1976 - Masami Fukushima (b. 1929), a Japanese science fiction editor, author, critic, and translator
 * 1977 - Zoran Krušvar, a Croatian psychologist and science fiction and fantasy writer
 * 1989 - Carl Wessler (b. 1913), an American animator and comic book writer
 * 2000 - Catherine Crook de Camp (b. 1907), an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor and wife of L. Sprague de Camp