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August 5:

Book releases
 * 2004 - Skyfall by Catherine Asaro
 * 2008 - The Last Theorem by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl

Births
 * 1943 - Kathleen Sky, the pen name of Kathleen Mckinney Goldin, an American science fiction and fantasy author
 * 1947 - Élisabeth Vonarburg, Franco-Canadian science fiction author, Worldcon Guest of Honor
 * 1948 - Larry Elmore, American fantasy artist

Deaths
 * 2002 - Franco Lucentini (b.1920), an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies