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- 1861: death of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese artist and caricaturist
- 1920: birth of Sheldon Moldoff, American comic book artist, known as co-creator of Poison Ivy
- 1922: birth of Dana Fradon, American cartoonist who drew roughly 1,400 cartoons for The New Yorker
- 1924: debut of Wash Tubbs, American comic strip created by Roy Crane which ran until 1988
- 1927: birth of Jim Seed, American illustrator and cartoonist, known for the cartoons Dr. Guy Bennett and Jane Arden
- 1947: launch of Grandma, comic strip by Charles Kuhn
- 1949: birth of Dave Gibbons, British comics author and artist, best known for Watchmen
- 1950: first publication of Eagle, the most popular British comic, selling over 2 miilion copies a week, marking the debut of Dan Dare by Frank Hampson
- 1954: birth of Chuck Dixon, American comic book writer, best known for his work on the Punisher for Marvel Comics and on the characters Batman, Nightwing, and Robin for DC Comics
- 1954: birth of Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese mangaka, best known for Akira
- 1957: death of Will Owen, English book illustrator, cartoonist, and caricaturist, producer of cartoons for the Bystander and The Sketch
- 1959: birth of Gerhard, Canadian artist known for his work on the comics series Cerebus the Aardvark.
- 1961: birth of Daniel Clowes, American comics artist and author best known for Eightball
- 1974: birth of Hyung Min-woo, Korean manhwa artist best known for Priest
- 1985: birth of Jason Fabok, Canadian comic book artist
- 2003: death of John Kent, New Zealand comic strip creator best known for Varoomshka
