Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 16
Film releases
- The Beastmaster, an American fantasy film directed by Don Coscarelli
- 1985 - The Return of the Living Dead, an American zombie comedy film
- 1990 - Watchers II, a Canadian horror straight-to-video film starring Marc Singer and Tracy Scoggins
- Men in White, a straight-to-television satirical parody of science fiction movies, mainly spoofing Men in Black
- 2002 - The Adventures of Pluto Nash, an American science fiction comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy
Television series
- 2002 - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, an update of the 1980s animated series of the same name, begins airing on Cartoon Network
Births
- 1884 - Hugo Gernsback (d.1967), a Luxembourg-American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publishing the first science fiction magazine and having the Hugo Awards named after him
- 1934 - Andrew J. Offutt, an American science fiction and fantasy author
- 1953 - Richard Canal, a French science fiction writer
- 1954 - James Cameron, a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor
Deaths
- Béla Lugosi (b. ), a Hungarian actor of stage and screen, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version