John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote super-science space opera under his own name and stories under his primary pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. Campbell also used the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. His novella Who Goes There? was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011).

8 June 1910

Born on the same birth date (8 June 1910): Fernand Fonssagrives

Born on the same birth day (8 June): Charlotte Scott • David Barnhill • Ivo Sanader • John Collins (Continental Congress) • Jonathan Potter • Lena Baker • Nadia Petrova • Richard Pousette-Dart • Robert Schumann • Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Born in the same month (June 1910): Aleksandr Tvardovsky • Arthur Gardner (producer) • Avon Long • Bill Naughton • Bluey (long-lived dog) • Bradford Washburn • Burgess Whitehead • Carmine Coppola • Dick Foran • Fernand Fonssagrives • Frank Demaree • Frank Loesser • George Hees • Howlin' Wolf • John Hunt, Baron Hunt • Konrad Zuse • Mary Whitehouse • Mary Wickes • Paul Flory • Paulette Goddard • Red Foley