American author and illustrator

Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes is an American comics artist and illustrator best known to American comic book readers for his renderings of pinup-style female characters, and his cover work on titles such as Wonder Woman and Catwoman. He is known as one of comics' foremost cheesecake artists, and one of the best known and most distinctive comic book cover artists. Throughout his career Hughes has provided illustration work for companies such as DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. Pictures, Playboy magazine, Joss Whedon's Mutant Enemy Productions, and Sideshow Collectibles.

Born

1967

May 5

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
1192 Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem marries Henry II, Count of Champagne.
1215 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

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The world in 1967

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april 14 Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
april 21 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
april 21 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
april 23 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, is launched into orbit.

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Archibald Wavell 1883–1950 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883) Gabriel 1530–1574 comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530) Georgios Papadopoulos 1919–1999 Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919) Hiroshi Hase 1961– Japanese wrestler and politician Juan Manuel 1282–1348 Spanish prince (born 1282) Karl Marx 1818–1883 German philosopher and theorist (born 1818) Robert Craufurd 1764–1812 Scottish general and politician (born 1764) Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855 Danish philosopher and author (died 1855) Sylvia Pankhurst 1882–1960 English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960)

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Sung Jae-gi 1967–2013 South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967) A. R. Rahman 1967– Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist Anderson Cooper 1967– American journalist and author Carl Ouellet 1967– Canadian wrestler and sportscaster Carrie-Anne Moss 1967– Canadian actress Cynthia Breazeal 1967– American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic Deion Sanders 1967– American football and baseball player and coach Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player Joely Fisher 1967– American actress and director

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