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July 12:

Film releases
 * 1961 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, an American science fiction film
 * 1985 - Explorers, a science fiction fantasy film targeted at a family audience
 * 2009 - Meteor, a disaster science fiction film, airs the first of two parts on NBC

Television series
 * 1986 - Terrahawks, a British science fiction television series, finishes airing on ITV

Births
 * 1933 - Donald E. Westlake (d. 2008), an American crime fiction, comic caper, and science fiction writer
 * 1946 - Charles R. Saunders, an African American science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction author and journalist
 * 1947 - Hiroshi Aramata, a Japanese science fiction and fantasy author, translator, and screenplay writer
 * 1947 - Carl Lundgren, an American artist and illustrator primarily known for his 1960s-era rock posters and fantasy art
 * 1948 - Ben Burtt, an American sound designer for the films Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
 * 1964 - Serge Lehman, the main pseudonym of the French science fiction writer Pascal Fréjean
 * 1967 - Adam Johnson, an American fiction and science fiction writer
 * 1979 - Dmitry Glukhovsky, a Russian author and journalist

Deaths
 * 1978 - Jay Williams (b. 1914), an American science fiction and history author
 * 1999 - Mircea Nedelciu (b. 1950), a Romanian short-story writer, novelist, essayist and literary critic
 * 2009 - Charles N. Brown (b. 1937), the co-founder and editor of Locus