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 * 1883: birth of William Donahey, American comic strip creator best known for Teenie Weenies
 * 1927: birth of Vic Lockman, American comics artist best known as creator of Moby Duck
 * 1947: birth of Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comics artist best known for his work on Disney comics
 * 1955: first appearance of Modeste et Pompon in Le Journal de Tintin, a comic strip started by René Goscinny and André Franquin
 * 1961: birth of Mike Manley American comics artist best known for co-creating Darkhawk
 * 2002: death of Hans Jürgen Press, German illustrator and writer, known for riddle and crime comics
 * 2012: death of John Radford, British writer and broadcaster, who early in his career wrote comics for D. C. Thomson & Co