Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/March/March 20

March 20:

Film releases

• 2009 - Knowing, a science fiction/disaster film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage

Television series

• 1993 - Beyond Reality, a Canadian/American science fiction television series, finishes airing
• 1996 - The Sentinel, a Canadian-produced science fiction television series, begins airing on UPN
• 2009 - Battlestar Galactica, a military science fiction serial drama television series, finishes airing on Syfy

Births

• 1902 - David Lasser (d. 1996), one of the most influential figures of early science fiction writing
• 1948 - John de Lancie, an American actor best known for portraying Q on the various Star Trek series, and as Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1
• 1948 - Pamela Sargent, an American, feminist, science fiction author, and editor
• 1955 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman, an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer
• 1957 - Chris Wedge, an American film director, best known for the films Ice Age and Robots
• 1958 - Stephen Sommers, an American screenwriter and film director, best known for The Mummy and its sequel, The Mummy Returns
• 1959 - Mariko Ōhara, a Japanese science fiction writer
• 1959 - Suzanne Francis, an English science fiction and fantasy author
• 1961 - Edward E. Kramer, an American editor and author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and horror works, and founder of the Dragon Con fan convention in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, a Polish humoristic science-fiction and fantasy author

Deaths

• 2006 - John Morressy (b. 1930), an American science fiction and fantasy writer

Anniversaries and events

• 1976 - The first Stellarcon is held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Alien Abduction Day