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July 4:

Television series
 * 1961 - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, an American horror, mystery, science fiction, and drama television series created by Merwin Gerard, finishes airing on ABC

Births
 * 1928 - Patrick Tilley, a British science fiction author
 * 1961 - Richard Garriott, a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur best known as his alter ego Lord British in the Ultima series

Deaths
 * 1971 - August Derleth (b. 1909), an American writer and anthologist best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft
 * 2005 - Chris Bunch (b. 1943), an American science fiction, fantasy, and television writer
 * 2008 - Possible death date of Thomas Disch (b. 1940), an American science fiction author and poet

Anniversaries and events
 * 1939 - The 1st World Science Fiction Convention concludes in Caravan Hall in New York City