Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 7

July 7:

Television series Births
 * 2009 - Warehouse 13 begins airing on the Syfy network
 * 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya (d. 1970), the Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction movies
 * 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (d. 1988)

Deaths
 * 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 1859), a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, whose other works include science fiction, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction