Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 16

Television series
 * 2004 - The Stargate Atlantis series premieres on the SciFi Channel

Births
 * 1928 - Robert Sheckley (d. 2005), a Hugo and Nebula-nominated American science fiction author

Deaths
 * 1945 - David Lindsay (novelist) (b. 1876), a Scottish author most famous for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus