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June 9:

Television series
 * 1999 - Crusade, a spin-off series to Babylon 5, begins airing on TNT

Births
 * 1925 - Keith Laumer (d. 1993), an American science fiction author
 * 1930 - Lin Carter (d. 1988), an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic
 * 1943 - Joe Haldeman, an American science fiction author
 * 1954 - Gregory Maguire, an American fantasy author
 * 1955 - Pierce Askegren (d. 2006), an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror author

Deaths
 * 1870 - Charles Dickens (b. 1812), the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era
 * 1968 - Bernard Cronin (b. 1884), a British author and journalist
 * 1971 - Russell R. Winterbotham (b. 1904), an American writer of westerns, crime fiction, and science fiction
 * 1973 - John Creasey (b. 1908), a British crime and science fiction writer
 * 1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias (b. 1899), a Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and diplomat
 * 2008 - Algis Budrys (b. 1931), a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic