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March 5:

Film releases
 * 1954 - Creature from the Black Lagoon, an American monster film directed by Jack Arnold
 * 2010 - Alice in Wonderland, a fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton

Television series
 * 2001 - Cleopatra 2525, a syndicated science fiction television series, finishes initial airing

Births
 * 1907 - Martti Löfberg (d. 1969), a successful Finnish pulp fiction author
 * 1942 - Mike Resnick, an American science fiction author and executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe

Deaths
 * 1996 - Whit Bissell (b. 1909), an American actor who received a life career award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1994
 * 2007 - Ivan Supek (b. 1915), a Croatian physicist, philosopher, writer (including science fiction), playwright, peace activist and humanist