Hugo Gernsback

Hugo Gernsback was an American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".

16 August 1884

Born on the same birth day (16 August): Al Hibbler • Albert Cohen (novelist) • Andrew Rainsford Wetmore • Ann Blyth • Diego Schwartzman • E. F. Schumacher • Eri Kitamura • Hal Foster • John Chisum • Moussa Sissoko • Suzanne Farrell • Timothy Hutton

Born in the same month (August 1884): Denis G. Lillie • Earl Derr Biggers • George Sarton • Harry Dean (cricketer) • Henri Cornet • Hermann Wlach • Nikolai Triik • Ogden L. Mills • Panait Istrati • Peter Fraser • Rudolf Bultmann • Rómulo Gallegos • Sara Teasdale • Vincent Auriol • Will Cuppy