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- 1930: birth of Leo Baxendale, British comics creator best known for The Bash Street Kids
- 1935: birth of Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian comic strip creator best known for Monica's Gang
- 1948: birth of Bernie Wrightson, American comic book artist best known as creator of Swamp Thing
- 1954: birth of Jan Duursema, comics artist best known for her work on Star Wars comics
- 1990: last issue of Whizzer and Chips, British comic which ran since 1969
- 1992: birth of Evan Stanley, American comics artist and writer
- 2012: death of Bill White, American animator, and a comic book writer, penciller, and inker
