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December 31:

Film releases
 * 1931 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March

Deaths
 * 1978 - Basil Wolverton (b. 1909), an American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer-artist
 * 2008 - Donald E. Westlake (b. 1933), an American crime fiction, comic caper, and science fiction writer

Anniversaries and events
 * 1985 - Calvin and Hobbes ends serialization