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The artist Léon Benett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benett... died on this day, so here's some of his illustrations to Jules Verne's works: 1-3 for "Robur-le-Conquérant" (1886), 4 for "L'Archipel en Feu" (1884):

Leigh Brackett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bracke... was born on this day, so here are some of her magazine cover appearances 1943-1948 (Artist: Jerome Rozen, George Rozen, Chester Martin and Allen Anderson):

Hiroshi Mori sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mori_h... was born on this day, so here are some of his covers (couldn't identify the artists). The 4th does seem to be connected with him (i.e. it isn't just a magazine that happens to have "Mori" in it's title):

Phyllis Eisenstein sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/eisens... and Robert Graves sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/graves... died on this day, so here are some of their covers (Artist: Rowena Morrill, Paul Chadwick, Mitchell Hooks and [couldn't identify]):

I imagine that there's little doubt that this was the same Don Martin who did a lot of artwork for Mad magazine, this being very much in that style!

William P McGivern (1&2) sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mcgive... & Roger Dee (3&4) sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dee_ro... were born on this day: interior magazine art 1952-61 (Artist: Virgil Finlay, Frede Vidar, Don Martin, Jack Gaughan) 1 "I'll Follow You to Hell"; 2 "Operation Mind-Pick"; 4 "The Feeling"

Artist Christos Achilléos sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/achill... died on this day, so here's some of his artwork. 2nd for "Robot Adept" by Piers Anthony; 3rd for his collection "Medusa"; 4th Games Workshop related:

Arthur K Barnes sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barnes... was born and Louise Lawrence sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lawren... died on this day, so some related artwork (Artist: [couldn't identify], HW Wesso, Alix Berenzy and Antony Maitland) 1st from 1937, 2nd for Barnes' "The Dual World" (1938):

Author/artist Clemence Housman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/housma... died, whilst author/editor Ejler Jakobsson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jakobs... was born this day (Artist: Jim Garrison?, Clemence Housman [engraver], ?? and ??) 1st has Housman's 'Werewolf' (original 1890, this 1973), 3&4 from 1938:

Mariana Enríquez sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/enriqu... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Guillermo Lorca, [couldn't identify], Vincent Van Gogh and [couldn't identify]):

Illustrations for authors without SFE entries, from 'If' 1957-1960: 1 Aldo Giunta, 2 BJ Rogers, 3 Bernard Wall, 4 Scott F Grenville (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, Frank Kelly Freas, [uncredited] and Wallace Wood) 1st for "Jingle in the Jungle", 2nd for "The Pure Observers":

Artist Darrell Sweet sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sweet_... died on this day, so here's some of his cover art:

Colin Wilson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilson... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Bob Haberfield, [couldn't identify] and Bob Haberfield):

Artist Nicholas Jainschigg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jainsc... was born, whilst author Anna Kavan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kavan_... died on this day, so here are two related book covers for each (Artist: Nicholas Jainschigg, Nicholas Jainschigg, 小泉孝司 and [couldn't identify]).

Alexandre Dumas sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dumas_... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Mahlon Blaine, Mahlon Blaine, [couldn't identify] and [signature bottom-right which looks like] Gerlier):

Illustrations for authors without SFE entries, from 'If' 1955-August 1956: 1 EG Von Wald, 2 Henry Still, 3 Charles A Stearns, Fox B Holden (Artist: Paul Orban, Frank Kelly Freas, Paul Orban and Virgil Finlay) 1st for "Easy Does It", 2 "Slow Burn", 3 "The Scamperers", 4 "A Matter of Order":

Artist Lawrence Sterne Stevens sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/steven... (usually referred to as "Lawrence") was born on this day, so here's some of his credited cover artwork (though it should be borne in mind that for magazine covers "he often gave these assignments to his son Peter"):

Artist Brian Lewis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lewis_... died on this day, so here's some of his 1958 cover art:

Chiaki Kawamata sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kawama... and Lucy Sussex sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sussex... were born, whilst Edwin Pallander sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pallan... died on this day (Artist: 1,2&4 [couldn't identify], 3 Deborah Klein). 1&2 illustrate Chiaki Kawamata:

Gustav Meyrink sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/meyrin... died on this day; though best known as author of "The Golem", here are some of the illustrations to his story "Der Mann auf der Flasche" (1920), by Fritz Janowski. Apparently the artist was deliberately invoking the style of Aubrey Beardsley.

Double page spread layout means portion of monster omitted.

Illustrations for authors without SFE entries, from 'If' 1954: 1 Ed M Clinton Jr, 2 EG Von Wald, 3 William E Bentley, 4 Vernon L McCain (Art: 1 Ed Emshwiller, 2&4 Frank Kelly Freas, 3 Virgil Finlay) 1 "The Small World of M-75", 2 "Fair and Warmer", 4 "The Hitch Hikers". 3rd image layout frustrating

Malcolm Edwards sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/edward... and Terri Windling sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/windli... were born, whilst Andrew Weiner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weiner... died on this day: here are some of their book covers (Artist: Chris Foss, Charles Vess, Thomas Canty and Vicente Segrelles):

Robert Louis Stevenson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/steven... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Don Punchatz, NC Wyeth, Laura Freixas and [couldn't identify]) 2nd from "Black Arrow":

Doug Beason sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/beason... John Dalmas sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dalmas... and Ludvig Holberg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/holber... were born on this day (Artist: 1 Pat Morrissey, 2 Ken Kelly, 3&4 [?]). 3&4 for Holberg's "Peter Paars Ein Comisches Heldengedicht" (1750 edition):

Juan José Arreola sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arreol... died and David Severn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/severn... was born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: 2nd by Kelly Fearing, 4th by N Syers; couldn't identify the others):

Illustrations for authors without SFE entries, from 'If' 1952-1953: 1 John Scott Campbell, 2 Russell Burton, 3 Edward W Ludwig, 4 Lyle G Boyd & William C Boyd [as 'Boyd Ellanby'] (Artist: Marilyn Zimmerman, Tom Beecham, Paul Orban and Mel Hunter) 2nd for "Weak on Square Roots"; 3 "The Lonely Ones":

Artist Richard Corben sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/corben... died and author George Saunders was born on this day, so here's some related artwork. (Richard Corben, Richard Corben, Lane Smith and Paul Redgrave) 2nd for "West of the Sun" by Edgar Pangborn:

Artist Édouard Riou sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/riou_e... was born on this day. Though probably best known for illustrating Jules Verne, here's some of his artwork for Louis Figuier's "La Terre avant le Deluge" (The World before the Deluge) (1863):

ME Patchett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/patche... was born and Hilbert Schenck sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/schenc... died on this day, so here's some of their book covers (Artist: H Johns, [couldn't identify], Alex Schomburg and Don Maitz):

David MacAulay sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macaul... was born & G Sidney Paternoster sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/patern... died on this day: 1&2 are illustrations by MacAuley to his ‘Motel of the Mysteries’ (1979); 3&4 are Charles R Sykes' cover & frontispiece to Paternoster's 'The Motor Pirate' (1903):

Brad Foster cartoon

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