Leigh Brackett

Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2020, she posthumously won a Retro Hugo for her novel The Nemesis From Terra, originally published as "Shadow Over Mars".

7 December 1915

Born on the same birth date (7 December 1915): Eli Wallach

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Abi Harrison • Aleksandr Menkov • David Goffin • Eckhard Märzke • Fabien Pelous • Fay Bainter • Georges Laraque • Hack Meyers • Harry Chapin • Hermann Balck • Ivan Franceschini • James Keach • Johnny Bench • Kevin Séraphin • Louise Post • Mason Phelps • Oktay Ekşi • Reginald Lewis • Sara Bareilles • Sean Couturier • Yosano Akiko • İbrahim Kutluay

Born in the same month (December 1915): Aziz Nesin • Barbara Billingsley • Eddie Heywood • Eli Wallach • Eloise Jarvis McGraw • Ernest Lehman • Frank Sinatra • Gyula Zsengellér • Jo Van Fleet • John Vorster • Pete Rugolo • Phillip Glasier • Robert Ruark • Takahito, Prince Mikasa