Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 9

July 9:

Film releases
 * 1982 - Tron, an American action science fiction film
 * 2010 - Despicable Me
 * 2010 - Predators, an American science fiction, action and horror film directed by Nimród Antal

Births
 * 1909 - Basil Wolverton (d. 1978), an American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer-artist
 * 1944 - Glen Cook, an American science fiction and fantasy author
 * 1945 - Dean Koontz, an American horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire author
 * 1953 - Thomas Ligotti, an American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure
 * 1957 - Todd Lockwood, an American artist specializing in fantasy and science fiction illustration

Deaths
 * 2005 - Byron Preiss (b. 1953), an American writer, editor and publisher