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 * 1877: birth of Sidney Smith, American comic strip creator best known for The Gumps
 * 1918: birth of Bud Blake, American comic strip creator best known for Tiger
 * 1937: debut of Prince Valiant, influential American comic strip by Hal Foster
 * 1954: first appearance of The Bash Street Kids, ongoing British comic strip created by Leo Baxendale in The Beano
 * 1959: birth of Vincent Deporter, Belgian comics artist best known for his work with Paradox Press
 * 1970: birth of Joe Phillips, American comics artist of the Gaijin Studios
 * 1982: death of Gluyas Williams, American cartoonist
 * 1988: death of Ron Embleton, British comics author known for Wulf the Briton
 * 2000: last new strip of Peanuts, the iconic American comic strip by Charles M. Schulz featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy