Bill Blackbeard
William Elsworth Blackbeard, better known as Bill Blackbeard, was a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American newspapers. This major collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, spanning the years 1894 to 1996, has provided source material for numerous books and articles by Blackbeard and other researchers.
28 April 1926
Born on the same birth date (28 April 1926): Harper Lee • Hulusi Sayın • James Bama
Born on the same birth day (28 April): Chris White (politician) • Daequan Cook • Heinrich Müller (Gestapo) • Kim Gordon • Paul Guilfoyle • Pedro Ramos • T. John Lesinski • Vernon Kay • Walter Tull
Born in the same month (April 1926): Alan Reynolds (artist) • Alex Grammas • Barbara Anderson (writer) • Basil A. Paterson • Ellie Lambeti • Elmer Kelton • Gloria Jean • Harper Lee • Harris Wofford • Ian Paisley • J. P. Donleavy • James Bama • Jane Withers • Joan Lorring • Jürgen Moltmann • Karl Rebane • Liz Renay • Michael Mathias Prechtl • Randy Weston • Ronnie Masterson • Rudra Rajasingham • Sergio Franchi • Victor Bouchard