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26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.

17 January - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator.
22 January - Alex Ross, American comic book painter and illustrator
10 February - Peter Richards, artist and curator
15 February - Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
27 February - Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director.
12 March - Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
3 May - Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer.
9 May - Damian Loeb, American painter.
26 May - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka.
1 June - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (d.1996).

6 July - Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer.
9 July - Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer.
4 August - Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator.
22 November - Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter.
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- Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist.
- Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist.
- Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator.
- Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker.
- David Quinn, Irish artist.

27 January - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b.1908).
25 February - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (b.1903).
2 March - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (b.1888).
8 March
- Waldo Peirce, American painter (b.1884).
- Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (b.1892).
13 May - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (b.1899).
29 May - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b.1936).
6 June - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (b.1883).

4 July - Barnett Newman, American artist (b.1905).
7 July - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (b.1877).
1 December - Hermine David, French painter (b.1886).
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- Robert Laurent, American sculptor (b.1890).
- Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (b.1898).