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- 1900: birth of Ham Fisher, American comic strip creator best known for Joe Palooka
- 1946: birth of Carson Van Osten, American comics creator working on Disney comics
- 1952: birth of Bill Vallely, American freelance illustrator and writer, known for his work at various comic publishers
- 1957: death of Harry Paschall, American weightlifter, magazine editor, cartoonist, and writer, creator of the Bosco comic strip
- 1962: birth of Mark Mazz, American comic book art director, editor, and writer, founder of publishing company Atlas Unleashed
- 1970: birth of Dan Curtis Johnson, American comic book writer and programmer
- 1971: first appearance of Yoko Tsuno by Roger Leloup, in Spirou
- 1972: birth of Jock (cartoonist), Scottish cartoonist and comic book artist
- 1977: first publication of Plug, a British comic which ran for 76 issues
- 1982: birth of Matthew Inman, American cartoonist, creator of web comic The Oatmeal
- 1987: birth of Clayton Cowles, American comic book letterer
- 1993: launch of Doctor Fun by David Farley, presumably the first comic on the World Wide Web
