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- 1883: death of Gustave Doré, French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor
- 1884: birth of George McManus, American comic strip creator best known for Bringing up Father
- 1905: death of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese comics pioneer best known for Zé Povinho
- 1910: death of Angelo Agostini, considered the first Brazilian cartoonist and a pioneer of sequential art
- 1930: debut of Quick & Flupke, Belgian comic series by Hergé, in Le Petit Vingtième
- 1934: birth of Don Wright, American editorial cartoonist
- 1949: birth of Tom Condon, DC Comics managing editor from 1984-1986.
- 1952: birth of Klaus Janson, German-born American comics artist, best known as an inker
- 1953: death of Raymond De La Nezière, French comic artist mainly known for his drawings of horses and his anthropomorphic animals
- 1958: death of Ilia Beshkov, Bulgarian painter, graphic artist, comics artist, caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator, writer and pedagogue.
- 1965: first publication of Sparky, British comic which ran for 652 issues
- 1988: last issue of Battle Picture Weekly, British comic which ran since 1975
- 2001: first issue of Planetes, Japanese manga created by Makoto Yukimura
- 2001: debut of Zipang, ongoing Japanese manga by Kaiji Kawaguchi
