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April 22:

Book releases

• Found, a young adult science fiction novel written by Margaret Peterson Haddix

• 1935 - Bride of Frankenstein, an American horror film
• 1953 - Invaders from Mars, a science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies
• 1983 - The Deadly Spawn, a horror film directed by Douglas McKeown
• 1994 - Brainscan, a horror film directed by John Flynn

Television series

• 2002 - Lexx, a science fantasy television series, finishes airing on Global Television Network

Births

• 1899 - Byron Haskin (d. 1984), an American film and television director best known for directing 1953's The War of the Worlds
• 1908 - Ivan Yefremov (d. 1972), a Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author
• 1934 - Sheldon Jaffery (d. 2003), an American bibliographer known for his books about of Weird Tales magazine, Arkham House books, the weird menace pulps, and related topics
• 1944 - Damien Broderick, an Australian science fiction and popular science writer

Deaths

• 2002 - Denis McLoughlin (b. 1918), a well-known British illustrator known for his hard-boiled detective illustrations and science fiction works