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These are the selected anniversaries for February that appear on the Speculative fiction portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.
February 1
Television series
- 1964 The Daleks, a serial in the Doctor Who series, finishes airing on the BBC
Births
- 1908 - George Pal (d. 1980), a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre
Deaths
- 1851 - Mary Shelley (b. 1797), a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
- 1940 - Philip Francis Nowlan (b. 1888), an American science fiction author and creator of the Buck Rogers character
- 1977 - Edmond Hamilton (b. 1904), an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century
Anniversaries and events
- 1933 - The last of six parts of the science fiction disaster novel When Worlds Collide, by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, is serialized in the February issue of Blue Book
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February 2
Film releases
- 1939 - Buck Rogers, a Universal serial film based on the Buck Rogers comic strip
Births
- 1940 - Thomas Disch (d. 2008), an American science fiction author and poet
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February 3
Television series
- 1983 - ''The Greatest American Hero]], an American science fiction TV series, finishes airing on ABC
Births
- 1924 - Leslie Stevens (d. 1998), the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits (1963–1965) and director of the cult horror film Incubus (1965)
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February 4
Film releases
- 1995 - Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, a comedy film based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and starring Tim Daly, Sean Young, and Lysette Anthony
Anniversaries and events
- 1940 - The Adventures of Superman, a radio serial based on the DC Comics character of the same name, begins airing on WOR
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February 5
Film releases
- 1956 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a horror science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Births
- 1914 - William S. Burroughs (d. 1997), an American novelist, poet, essayist, painter and spoken word performer
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February 6
Film releases
- 1974 - Zardoz, an Irish science fiction film
- 2008 - Fanboys, a comedy film parodying fandom
- 2009 - Coraline, an Oscar-nominated American stop-motion 3-D horror-fantasy film
- 2009 - Push, an American science fiction thriller film
Television series
- 1965 - The Romans, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, finishes airing on BBC
- 1999 - Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, a science fiction series, begins airing on Fox Kids
- 2002 - 2030 CE, a Canadian dystopian future children's TV series
- 2004 - Jake 2.0, an American science fiction television series, finishes airing on UPN
Births
- 2008 - Emmanuel Jouanne (b. 1960), a French science fiction writer
Deaths
- 2007 - Lee Hoffman (b. 1932), an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western and romance novels
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February 7
Film releases
- 1972 - The Fury of the Wolfman, a Spanish horror film that is the fourth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy
Births
- 1812 - Charles Dickens (d. 1870), the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era
Deaths
- 1988 - Lin Carter (b. 1930), an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic
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February 8
Television series
- 1964 The Edge of Destruction, a serial in the Doctor Who series, begins airing on the BBC
Births
- 1828 - Jules Verne (d. 1905), a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre
Anniversaries and events
- 2008 - Flash Gordon finishes airing on Syfy after being cancelled due to low ratings
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February 9
Film releases
Births
- 1928 - Frank Frazetta (d. 2010), an award-winning American fantasy and science fiction artist
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February 10
Film releases
- 1944 - The Uninvited, an American supernatural mystery/romance film
- 1989 -The Fly II, an American science fiction horror film and sequel to the 1986 film, The Fly
- 1989 - Slipstream, a British post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film
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February 11
Deaths
- 1986 - Frank Herbert (b. 1920), an American science fiction author best known for his Dune series
- 2005 - Jack L. Chalker (b. 1944), an American science fiction author
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February 12
Film releases
- 1993 - Groundhog Day
- 1993 - The Juniper Tree
- 1999 - My Favorite Martian, a science fiction comedy film
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February 13
Film releases
Television series
- 2002 - Special Unit 2, an American sci-fi/comedy television series, finishes airing on UPN
Births
- 1903 - Frank Fenton (d.1971), a British-born but American-raised writer of screenplays, short stories, magazine articles, and novels
- 1943 - Leo Frankowski (d. 2008), an American writer of science fiction novels
- 1969 - Bryan Thomas Schmidt, an American science fiction author and editor
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February 14
Births
- 1925 - J. T. McIntosh, a Scottish science fiction writer and journalist
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February 15
Television series
- 1964 The Edge of Destruction, a serial in the Doctor Who series, finishes airing on the BBC
Births
- 1933 - Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko (d. 2005), a Soviet and Ukrainian science fiction writer
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February 16
Births
- 1925 - Ed Emshwiller (d. 1990), a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering experimental films
Deaths
- 2010 - Jim Harmon (b. 1933), an American short story author and popular culture historian
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February 17
Film releases
- 1996 - Project ALF, a TV film sequel to the final episode, "Consider Me Gone", of the ALF TV series, airs on ABC
Television series
- 2008 - Knight Rider, a television movie created as a backdoor pilot for the new Knight Rider television series, airs on NBC
Births
- 1912 - Andre Norton (d. 2005), an American science fiction and fantasy author
Deaths
- 2003 - Harry Warner, Jr. (b. 1922), an American journalist, science fiction fan and fandom historian, and classical musician
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February 18
Film releases
- 1953 - The Magnetic Monster, an independent science fiction film directed by Curt Siodmak
- 1990 - The Death of the Incredible Hulk TV movie premieres on NBC
- 2010 - Plumíferos
Births
- 1929 - Masami Fukushima (d. 1976), a Japanese science fiction editor, author, critic, and translator
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February 19
Television series
- 1995 - Get Smart, a short-lived sequel to the original Get Smart television series, finishes airing on FOX
Births
- 1915 - Fred Freiberger (d. 2003), an American television producer and script writer best known for producing of the third season of Star Trek: The Original Series and the second season of Space: 1999
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February 20
Deaths
- 1986 - Judy-Lynn del Rey (b. 1946), an American science fiction editor
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February 21
Deaths
- 1996 - H. L. Gold (b. 1914), a Canadian science fiction writer and editor
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February 22
Television series
- 1964 Marco Polo, a serial in the Doctor Who series, begins airing on the BBC
- 1993 - Babylon 5 begins airing on PTEN
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February 23
Film releases
- 1996 - Mary Reilly, a suspense-horror film directed by Stephen Frears based on the novel Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin about a servant of Dr. Jekyll
Deaths
- 1998 - Sean A. Moore (b. 1964), an American fantasy and science fiction writer and computer programmer
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February 24
Births
- 1909 - August Derleth (d. 1971), an American writer and anthologist best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft
Deaths
- 1921 - Richard M. Powers (d. 1996), a science fiction illustrator
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February 25
Births
- 1910 - Pavel Klushantsev (d. 1999), a Russian film director, producer, screenwriter and author
Deaths
- 1957 - Milo Hastings (b. 1884), an American inventor, author, and nutritionist
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February 26
Film releases
- 1989 - Get Smart, Again!, a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, airs on ABC
Births
- 1802 – Victor Hugo, French fantasy writer (d. 1885)
- 1887 - Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer (d. 1936)
- 1908 - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde and abstract artist (d. 1996)
- 1918 – Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (d. 1985)
- 1958 - Karen Berger, American comic book editor
Deaths
- 1998 - James Algar (b. 1912), an American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney films
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February 27
Film releases
- 2007 - Dreamland, an American science fiction direct-to-DVD film
Births
- 1851 - James Churchward (d. 1936), a British-born occult writer, patented inventor, engineer, and expert fisherman
Deaths
- 2008 - Sujatha Rangarajan, pseudonym of S. Rangarajan, a Tamil science fiction writer
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February 28
Book releases
- 2001 - The Dark Imbalance, a science fiction novel by Sean Williams
- 2002 - Altered Carbon, a hardboiled science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan
Births
- 1928 - Walter Tevis, an American science fiction writer
- 1970 - Daniel Handler, an American fantasy writer best known for his works under his nom de plume, Lemony Snicket
Anniversaries and events
- 2007 - Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories opens as an exhibit at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
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February 29
Births
- 1944 - Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, an Italian comic book writer and illustrator
- 1948 - Patricia A. McKillip, an American author of fantasy and science fiction
- 1952 - Tim Powers, an American science fiction and fantasy author
Deaths
- 1984 - Meyer Dolinsky (b. 1923), an American writer, actor and stunt coordinator
- 2008 - Janet Kagan (b. 1946), an American science fiction and fantasy author
Anniversaries and events
- 1996 - Game Designers' Workshop, an American wargame and role-playing game publisher, disbands after suffering financial troubles
- 2004 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King becomes the first fantasy film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture
- 2008 - TV4 Science fiction, a Swedish television channel dedicated to the science fiction genre
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