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October 16:

Book releases
 * 1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
 * 1979 - Alongside Night, a Prometheus Award-winning libertarian and anarchist dystopian novel by science fiction writer J. Neil Schulman
 * 2007 - Star Wars: Death Star, a science fiction novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry that is set in the Star Wars universe
 * 2007 - Fleet of Worlds, a science fiction book by Edward M. Lerner and Larry Niven in the Known Space series
 * 2007 - The Merchants' War, the fourth book in Charlie Stross' alternate history, science fiction series, The Merchant Princes
 * 2010 - Homecoming by Jo Graham and Melissa Scott

Film releases
 * 2009 - Triangle, a British-Australian psychological horror film

Births
 * 1916 - George Turner (d. 1997), an Australian science fiction writer and critic
 * 1926 - Joe Sinnott, an American comic book artist
 * 1971 - Lawrence Schimel, an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist

Deaths
 * 2003 - Mark Hanna (b. 1917), an American screenwriter and actor best known his screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s
 * 2004 - Tetsu Yano (b. 1923), a Japanese science fiction translator and writer
 * 2008 - Patrick W. Welch (b. 1965), an English painter, illustrator, and art professor known as the "Painter of Hate," a spoof/homage to Thomas Kinkade, "Painter of Light"

Anniversaries and events
 * 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded in Los Angeles, California