Events
Birthdays
- Tony Harding [1942]
British illustrator of action comics - Chic Young [1901]
Creator of 'Blondie' comic strip - Karel Čapek [1890]
Czech writer who coined the word 'robot'
Death Anniversaries
- Bud Paxson [2015]
Founder of Pax TV and precursor of Home Shopping Network - Johnny Gruelle [1938]
American artist, cartoonist and writer of children's books - Charles-Émile Reynaud [1918]
Inventor of the Praxinoscope and the first person to have projected animated cartoons