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Birthdays
| Holmes Herbert 1882, actor, Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden - Jungle Jim (1948) |
| Chris Sprouse 1966, comic book artist, Sprouse launched his career in mainstream comics in 1989, his first credited work being a Chemical King story in an issue of DC Comics' Secret Origins. He then did a Two-Face story for Batman Annual #14 and then moved on to the limited series Hammerlocke. Sprouse then took on the sci-fi series Legionnaires, featuring teenaged versions of the characters in the Legion of Super-Heroes series, and eventually moved on to a number of one-shot and fill-in issues before illustrating a Star Wars mini-series, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, for Dark Horse Comics. He then worked for Extreme Studios as the regular penciller of New Men, and in 1997, Sprouse drew several issues of Supreme, scripted by Alan Moore for the same publisher. After Supreme ended, a year later he and Moore created Tom Strong for America's Best Comics, for which Sprouse won two Eisner Awards in 2000, for Best Single Issue and Best Serialized Story. Sprouse was also the penciller on the 2004 Ocean mini-series, written by Warren Ellis and published by DC Comics. In 2007, Ocean was optioned for film. In 2006, he began pencilling Wildstorm's Midnighter ongoing series, a spin-off of The Authority. |
| Lou Darvas 1913, cartoonist, He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1963 and 1967 for his work. He also authored a book called "You Can Draw Cartoons", published in 1960 by Doubleday. He was the author of a daily comic strip called "Half Nelson" for the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate for a year before returning to Cleveland Press in 1946. |
| William Wintersole 1931, actor, Professor Andrew Whitsett - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Inheritors: Part 1", 1964), Alien in Charge / Carr - The Invaders (2 episodes, 1967), Kurt - Tarzan (1 episode, "The Last of the Supermen", 1967), Abrom - Star Trek (1 episode, "Patterns of Force", 1968), Manager - The Immortal (1 episode, "White Elephants Don't Grow on Trees", 1970), Blythe - Voyagers! (1 episode, "An Arrow Pointing East", 1982). |
| Carel Struycken 1948, actor, Terak - Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) (TV), Lurch - The Addams Family (1991), Mr. Homn - Star Trek: The Next Generation (5 episodes, 1987-1992), Dallas - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) (TV), Lurch - Addams Family Values (1993), Gaunt - Oblivion (1994), Trader - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "Soul Mates", 1994), Gaunt - Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996), Spectre - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "The Thaw", 1996), Arquillian - Men in Black (1997), Lurch - Addams Family Reunion (1998) (V), Strange man - Science Fiction (2002). |
Events
| 1933, Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune Sunday strip begins. |
| 1968, The escape from the Vians' lab is filmed for TOS: "The Empath". |
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