Frank Herbert died on this day, so here are four Dune-related Japanese book covers (couldn't identify artists, but suspect 石森章太郎 either did 2nd & 3rd or the 4th):
Artist Jean Giraud - aka Moebius - died on this day; best known for his comics and film work, he also provided the illustrations for many book covers, so here's some of them:
Illustrator Jerome Podwil was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art (the 2nd is for A Bertram Chandler's ' Empress of Outer Space', the 3rd for Poul Anderson's 'The Enemy Stars' and the 4th for Philip K Dick's 'A Crack in Space':
HP Lovecraft died on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (1st artist is named on bottom row, centre left; couldn't identify the others). The 3rd is a manga adaptation.
Philip K Dick was born on this day, so here are most of his US magazine cover art appearances (artist: Ed Emshwiller, Milton Luros, Frank Kelly Freas and Lloyd Birmingham):
Galaxie was a French magazine that translated stories from Galaxy, If & Worlds of Tomorrow, and - until the late 1960s - used their covers; but by 1971 the covers were exclusively home produced - here are some examples (Jacques Wyrs, Philippe Caza, Claude Lacroix & Philippe Caza)
Artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was born on this day; so here's some of his interior art, for: 1&2, Edmond Hamilton's 'La Planete des Loups'; 3, 'Les Univers de Robert Sheckley' and 4, Francis Carsac's "Ceux de Nulle Part".
Illustrator Michael Whelan was born on this day, so here's some of examples of his cover art; the 1st for Mack Reynold's 'Day After Tomorrow', the 3rd for Fred Saberhagen's 'Brother Assassin' (who died on this day - see earlier tweet) and the 4th for CJ Cherryh's 'Sunfall':
Robert Silverberg was born on this day, so here are some of his book's covers (artist: Don Punchatz, Željko Pahek, Ed Valigursky and G. Benvenuti): [Calvin Knox was a Silverberg pseudonym]
Bruce Pennington was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork. 1st for Frank Herbert "Children of Dune"; 2nd for Philip Jose Farmer "The Stone God Awakens":
Patrick Woodroffe was born on this day, so here's some of his book cover artwork, for A Merritt's "Seven Footprints to Satan"; "New Worlds 8 (also used for Best of Galaxy IV"); Ralph Milne Farley's "The Radio Planet" and "The Best of Robert Heinlein":
Artist Leo Dillon died on this day, so here are some of the book covers he illustrated (in collaboration with Diane Dillon; the 2nd & 3rd with their son Leo, who designed the frames). The 4th was used, but in b&w, for RA Lafferty's 'Iron Tears' collection:
Stanisław Lem died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Przemek Dębowski, [couldn't identify], Philippe Caza and [couldn't identify]):
Frank Frazetta died on this day, so here's some of his 1960s comic and book cover art. 1st for 'Tales from the Crypt' (Dec'64); 2nd Ray Bradbury 'The Autumn People'; 3rd 'Eerie' (May'66); 4th 'Creepy' (Oct'66):
Michael Moorcock was born on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (artist: couldn't identify first two, though I'll suspect I'll kick myself when I find out; I think the 3rd is by Leiji Matsumoto and the 4th is by 天野喜孝):
Artist John Martin died on this day, so here's some examples of his work. “Pandemonium”, “Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council”, "Bridge Over Chaos" and "The Great Day of His Wrath" (1&3 were illustrations to an edition of Milton's "Paradise Lost"):
Some more Bruce Pennington covers. The first two are for Brian Aldiss' 'Canopy of Time' and 'Space, Time and Nathaniel'; the third for M John Harrison's 'The Pastal City' and the fourth for Clifford Simak's 'Out of their Minds':
Artist Ken Barr was born on this day, so here are some of his cover art. 1st for Pohl/Kornbluth "Wolfsbane"; 3rd for CJ Cherryh "Serpent's Reach" (re: 4th, it's also Jacqueline Lichtenberg's birthday today - see previous post):
Bruce Sterling was born on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (couldn't identify artists, though first two have a signature that looks like "Kon"):
Artist Jean Giraud - better known as Moebius - died on this day; so here's some of his cover art. The 2nd is for the anthology "Étonnants voyageurs - Utopies S.F." by Jacques Chambon & Michel Le Bris":
Isaac Asimov died on this day, so here's Michael Whelan's cover art for the Foundation Trilogy, then three more book covers (artist: Josh Kirby, [couldn't identify] and Stephen Youll):
Fritz Leiber was born on this day, so here are some of his covers (artist: Bruce Pennington, Ed Emshwiller [both parts of the Ace Double], Lars Nestler and Jack Gaughan/John Schoenherr):
TH White and Edward D Hoch died on this day, so here are some of their book covers (artist: TH White, Marion, Alan Lee and unknown): [the Alan Lee was for the cover of 'The Sword in the Stone', I found this version without the printing)
Arthur C Clarke was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine covers (artist: Allen Anderson, Ken Fagg, Mel Hunter and Ed Emshwiller). As with Philip K Dick, less magazine cover appearances than I expected!
Here's a couple of examples of Ian Miller's artwork for an illustrated edition of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, plus covers by Jacques Noël and Cândido Costa Pinto):
Artist Boris Vallejo was born on this day, so here's some of his work. The 3rd is his cover art for Frederik Pohl's "Gateway", the 4th for Arsen Darnay's " A Hostage for Hinterland":
Jack Vance died on this day, so here are some of his French book covers (Artist: Guillaume Sorel, [couldn't identify], Julien Delval and Marc Simonetti):
Artist Ian Miller was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art. 1st for for HP Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror"; 2nd Stuart Gordon "Suaine and the Crow-God"; the 4th for Ray Bradbury's "Long After Midnight":
Samuel R Delany was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Jack Gaughan, Jack Gaughan, Chris Foss and [familiar with the art style but can't remember the name]):
Cordwainer Smith died on this day, so here's three of his magazine covers and a piece of interior art (Artist: Virgil Finlay, John Pederson, Virgil Finlay and Virgil Finlay). I posted some of his book covers on the anniversary of his birth, back in July:
Artist Tim White died on this day, so here are some of his book covers. 2nd for 'Jewel of Jarhen' by Gregory Kern; 4th for 'Lord of the Spiders' by Michael Moorcock.
Film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky was born on this day, so here's some related film posters (2nd: signature on bottom right seems to read "Folon"; 4th by Victo Ngai):
Jules Verne was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, Glanville, Mort Künstler and [uncredited]). The 4th looks like a cover that started out as a "spaceship has landed on an alien planet".