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April 5:

Film releases

Television and web series

Births

  • 1916 - Bernard Baily (d. 1996), an American comic book artist, publisher, and editor best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters the Spectre and Hourman
  • 1917 - Robert Bloch (d. 1994), a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction
  • 1935 - H. M. Hoover, a children's science fiction book author
  • 1944 - Ann Maxwell, an American author of science fiction, historical fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense works
  • 1956 - Aleksandr Bushkov, a best-selling Russian author who has written books in the genres of science fiction, crime fiction, popular history and non-fiction

Deaths