Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/February/February 5

February 5:

Film releases
 * 1956 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a horror science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

Births
 * 1914 - William S. Burroughs (d. 1997), an American novelist, poet, essayist, painter and spoken word performer