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- 1912: birth of
Franz-Werner Richter-Johnsen, , German painter, graphic artist, and comic artist, known for Detektiv Schmidtchen for the daily Bild
- 1927: birth of
Raymond Maric, , French comic writer, artist, and editor
- 1951: birth of French cartoonist Jean Plantureux, who works under the pen-name
Plantu for the
Le Monde
- 1955: birth of
Kevin Kallaugher, cartoonist for
The Economist and a former cartoonist for the
Baltimore Sun
- 1977: death of
Ed Dobrotka, American comic artist, early assistant to
Joe Shuster and co-creator of
Toyman
- 1991:
2000 AD switches to full colour publication