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- Unknown year: birth of Adam DeKraker, American comic book artist
- 1907: birth of Antonia Yeoman, Australian-English cartoonist and illustrator, the only woman in Punch's Toby Club
- 1924: birth of Gene D'Angelo, comic book colorist
- 1926: birth of Lew Sayre Schwartz, American comic book artist who was known for his work on Batman in the Golden Age of comics
- 1932: birth of Ricardo Villamonte, comic book artist and inker
- 1935: birth of Pat Oliphant, Australian-born American artist who produced thousands of daily editorial cartoons
- 1943: first appearance of Garth, a British comic strip by Steve Dowling and John Allard in the Daily Mirror which ran until 1997
- 1947: birth of Romeo Tanghal, Filipino comics artist and inker, known for work at DC Comics
- 1954: birth of Helen Vesik, comic book artist, colorist and letterer
- 1958: birth of Bob Greenberger, American writer and editor who held executive positions at both Marvel and DC
- 1959: birth of Trevor Von Eeden, Guyanese-American comics artist and writer, known for work on Black Lightning
- 1963: birth of Colleen Doran, American comic book creator best known for A Distant Soil
- 1971: death of Lou Fine, American comic book artist best known for his cover art in the 1940s
- 1975: birth of Shane McCarthy, Australian writer best known for his comic book work.
- 1978: birth of Gabe Eltaeb, American comic book artist
- 1979: birth of Mark Andrew Smith, American comic book writer and editor best known for Amazing Joy Buzzards
- 2003: death of Warren Kremer, American comic strip creator best known for Richie Rich
- 2012: death of R. A. Kosasih, Indonesian comics author
- 2012: death of Themo Lobos, Chilean cartoonist, publisher of the comic-book Cucalón
