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- 1923: birth of Mort Walker, American comic strip creator best known for Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois
- 1936: birth of Kazuo Umezu, author of Japanese horror manga
- 1957: birth of Paul Chadwick, American comic book creator, best known for his series Concrete
- 1962: birth of Sholly Fisch, American comic book writer, known for his work on DC Comics' Looney Tunes
- 1963: birth of Joe Matt, American cartoonist known for Peepshow
- 1974: birth of Ethan Van Sciver, American comic book artist
- 1978: birth of Corey Breen, American comic book letterer
- 1989: first strip of Outland by Berkeley Breathed appears, one month after retiring Bloom County
- 1992: birth of Simone Di Meo, Italian comic book artist
- 1998: death of Vince Alascia, American comics artist best known for working on Captain America
