Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/March/March 22
Book releases
- 1996 - 2001 Nights, a science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Yukinobu Hoshino, is released in the English language for the first time
Film releases
- 1991 - Defending Your Life, a romantic comedy/fantasy film
- 2007 - Mug Travel, a South Korean computer-animated film
Television series
- 1985 - V, a science fiction television series, finishes airing on NBC
- 1995 - Sliders, an American science fiction television series, begins airing on Fox
- 2002 - The Chronicle, a science fiction television series, finishes airing on the Sci Fi Channel
Births
- 1908 - Louis L'Amour (d. 1988), an American western, science fiction, and adventure author
- 1911 - Raymond Z. Gallun (d. 1994), an American science fiction writer
- 1931 - William Shatner, a Canadian actor and science fiction novelist, best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek
- 1946 - Rudy Rucker, an American mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author
- 1963 - John Ringo, an American science fiction and military fiction author
Deaths
- 1994 - Walter Lantz (b. 1899), an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker
- 2001 - William Hanna (b. 1910), an American animator, director, producer, television director, television producer, and cartoon artist, and cofounder of Hanna-Barbera
- 2006 - Kurt von Trojan (b. 1937), an Australian journalist and science fiction author