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 * 1907: birth of Milton Caniff, American comic book creator famous for Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon
 * 1913: birth of John Coleman Burroughs, American comic creator best known for the comic strip version of John Carter of Mars
 * 1917: birth of Taizo Yokoyama, Japanese political cartoonist and teacher, creator of Pu-san and co-founder of the magazine Eheh
 * 1932: birth of Nancy E. Murphy, American comic book art archivist and manager of the subscription department of Marvel for 40 years
 * 1955: birth of Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, podcaster, voiceover artist and sometime comic book (Superboy v3 number 20) and National Lampoon writer
 * 1957: first appearance of Gaston Lagaffe, a renowned character by Belgian comic book creator André Franquin


 * Feb 29, 1952: birth of Nel Yomtov, the colourist of every single issue of the Marvel US Transformers comic book.