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- 1920: birth of Hank Ketcham, American comic strip creator best known for Dennis the Menace
- 1947: birth of Tom Batiuk, American comic strip creator, best known for Funky Winkerbean.
- 1950: birth of Dudu Geva, Israeli comics artist best known for The Knight Zick
- 1955: birth of Stephen R. Bissette, American comics artist, editor, and publisher with a focus on the horror genre
- 1957: birth of Mike DeCarlo, American comics artist. He is best known for his work for DC Comics in the 1980s
- 1966: birth of Jean-Philippe Stassen, Belgian comics artist best known for Le Bar du vieux Français
- 1969: birth of Tom Derenick, American comic book artist
- 1973: death of Chic Young, American comic strip creator best known for Blondie
- 2005: first appearance of Urban Trash, South Africa comic strip created by Jeremy Nell
- 2012: first issue of Saga by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples is published
