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- 1880: birth of George Herriman, influential American comic book artist and author best known for Krazy Kat
- 1903: birth of Jerry Iger, American comic strip creator best known as co-founder with Will Eisner of Eisner & Iger, an early comic book packager
- 1914: birth of Chester Commodore, American comic book writer with the Chicago Defender
- 1915: birth of Bob Brown (comics), American comic book artist for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics
- 1922: birth of Shelly Leferman, American comic book artist, letterer, and cartoonist
- 1955: birth of Will Shetterly,American writer, creator of the comic book character Captain Confederacy
- 1964: birth of D. G. Chichester, American comic book writer known for his work on Daredevil
- 2011: death of Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow, German cartoonist
