Lee Falk

Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross, was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of paperback novels about The Phantom.

28 April 1911

Born on the same birth day (28 April): Ann-Margret • Arthur Shaw (hurdler) • Carolyn Cassady • Chuck Leavell • Dick Ayers • Elena Kagan • Jenna Ushkowitz • Johan Borgen • John Thorn (headmaster) • Larissa Grunig • Michel Mohrt • Miodrag Radulovacki • Na Hye-sŏk • Penélope Cruz • Rose Murphy • Sidney Toler • Tim Congdon • Zoran Tošić

Born in the same month (April 1911): Augusta Braxton Baker • Feodor Lynen • Guy Burgess • Hervé Bazin • Ico Hitrec • Jean-Louis Lévesque • Mahmoud Younis • Martin Denny • Maurice Goldhaber • Maurice Schumann • Michael Woodruff • Stanisława Walasiewicz