E. C. Segar
Elzie Crisler Segar, known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre.
8 December 1894
Born on the same birth date (8 December 1894): James Thurber
Born on the same birth day (8 December): Adolph Menzel • Brant Alyea • Conceição Lima • Darren Sheridan • Duke Cunningham • Emma Green (athlete) • Ernst Moro • James Cama • James Galway • Jen Ledger • Johan Forssell (politician, born 1979) • Jordan Obita • Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist) • Les Ferdinand • Lionel Gilbert • Maria Josepha of Austria • McDonald Bailey • Nikos Karageorgiou • Richard Fleischer • Tyler Mane
Born in the same month (December 1894): Afrânio do Amaral • Alexander Nelke • Arthur Gilligan • C. R. Swart • Deiva Zivarattinam • Edwin Linkomies • Ford Frick • Freddie Adkins • Georges Guynemer • James Thurber • Jean Toomer • Patrick Flynn (athlete) • Robert Menzies • Warren William • Willem Schermerhorn