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August 6:

Book releases
 * 1996 - A Game of Thrones, the first novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin
 * 2009 - Galileo's Dream, a science fiction novel with elements of historical fiction written by author Kim Stanley Robinson

Film releases
 * 1999 - The Iron Giant, an animated science fiction film based on the 1968 novel by Ted Hughes
 * 1999 - The Sixth Sense

Births
 * 1809 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (d. 1892), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language
 * 1874 - Charles Fort (d. 1932), an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
 * 1926 - Janet Asimov, an American science fiction author, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and wife of Isaac Asimov from 1973-1992
 * 1934 - Piers Anthony, an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
 * 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, an Indian American filmmaker and screenwriter whose works are primarily contemporary fantasy and science fiction

Deaths
 * 1966 - Cordwainer Smith (b. 1913), the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works

Anniversaries and events
 * 1970 - The first San Diego Comic-Con International (known as "Golden State Comic Con" then) is held at the U.S. Grant Hotel with an attendance of 300