Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 26

July 26:

Film releases
 * 1969 - Latitude Zero, a tokusatsu film. It was directed by Ishirō Honda
 * 1993 - Robin Hood: Men in Tights, a fantasy comedy film of the story of Robin Hood
 * 2001 - Planet of the Apes, a science fiction remake of the 1968 film of the same name, directed by Tim Burton

Births
 * 1883 - Edwin Balmer (d. 1959), an American science fiction and mystery writer

Deaths
 * 1998 - Alain Dorémieux (b. 1933), a writer and translator of French science-fiction