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- 1912: birth of Ted Key, American comic strip creator best known for the cartoon Hazel
- 1913: birth of Walt Kelly, American comic book artist and author best known for Pogo
- 1920: birth of Fred Schwab, American cartoonist published in a wide variety of comic books from 1938 to 1950
- 1947: birth of Michael William Kaluta, American comic book artist
- 1964: birth of Bob Fingerman, American comics creator best known for Beg the Question
- 1969: birth of Glenn Greenberg, American journalist and comic book and fiction writer
- 1973: last publication of TV Action, a British comic that was the follow-up to Countdown and lasted for 74 issues
- 1988: first appearance of Oh My Goddess!, ongoing Japanese manga by Kosuke Fujishima
- 1997: debut of Sluggy Freelance, popular webcomic by Pete Abrams
- 2000: death of Carl Barks, considered by many as the best artist of Disney comics, and the creator of DuckBurg and Scrooge McDuck
