Charles Monroe Schulz

Charles Monroe Schultz was born on November 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died on February 12, 2000  in Santa Rosa, California at age 77. He was a cartoonist most famous for creating,  "The Peanuts." He was one of the most influential people of his time. The cartoonist who does "Calvin and Hobbes,"  Bill Waterson has said, "Peanuts pretty much define the modern comic strip, so even now its hard to see it with fresh eyes." Schulz’s first regular cartoons, Li’l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press.