Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 8

January 8:

Births
 * 1941 - Boris Vallejo, a Peruvian-born American science fiction, fantasy, and erotica painter
 * 1944 - Terry Brooks, an American writer of fantasy fiction
 * 1947 - Don Bendell, an American author of military thrillers, science fiction, biographies, and historical Westerns
 * 1959 - Ovidiu Pecican, a Romanian historian, essayist, science fiction novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist