question: In what year was the author of the novel that comic strip 'A Severed Head' was named after born?
answer: 1919
context: Title: Tarek Shahin
  Passage: Tarek Shahin (born 1982) is an Egyptian cartoonist.  He is best known as the author and illustrator of the comic strip 'Al Khan', which first appeared on the pages of The Daily News Egypt newspaper in 2008 and continues to run independently on the series' website.
  Title: Snoopy's siblings
  Passage: In Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts", Snoopy was often stated to have seven siblings.  Five appeared at various times in the strip: four brothers, Andy, Marbles, Olaf, and Spike; and one sister, Belle.  The two others were never mentioned by name in the comic strip.  According to the 1991 TV special "Snoopy's Reunion", their names are Molly and Rover; however, their appearance is not considered canonical in the comic strip.  In the June 6, 1959 comic strip, following the birth of Charlie Brown's sister Sally, Snoopy remarks that he has no brothers or sisters, and is an "only dog."  However, in a March 18, 1971 strip, Snoopy writes in his autobiography: "I was born one bright Spring morning at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.  I was one of eight puppies."
  Title: Striker (comic)
  Passage: Striker is a fictional British comic strip and former magazine, which is created by Pete Nash and features in the British tabloid newspaper "The Sun".  The strip first appeared in The Sun on Monday November 11, 1985 and ran in the newspaper daily until August 2003, when the author decided to launch the strip as a weekly independent comic book.  However, the strip returned to the The Sun during October 2005, after the comic book had published 87 issues and suffered financial problems.  Over the four years the newspaper strip was published daily until the end of September 2009, when it transpired that Nash had served a years notice to bring the strip to a conclusion.  However, Striker returned on January 26, 2010, as a full-page comic strip in the weekly UK lads magazine Nuts, where it was published as a weekly strip until October 2010.  It subsequently went unpublished until January 7, 2013, when it started to be published in The Sun newspaper.  Over the next three years it was published seven days a week, before it was announced that Striker would no longer be published in the paper after February 13, 2016.  Later that year, it was announced that the strip would be brought back to the paper by popular demand, with matches shown live on the internet for the first time.
  Title: Iris Murdoch
  Passage: Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.  Her first published novel, "Under the Net", was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.  In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.  Her books include "The Bell" (1958), "A Severed Head" (1961), "The Red and the Green" (1965), "The Nice and the Good" (1968), "The Black Prince" (1973), "Henry and Cato" (1976), "The Sea, the Sea" (1978, Booker Prize), "The Philosopher's Pupil" (1983), "The Good Apprentice" (1985), "The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987), "The Message to the Planet" (1989), and "The Green Knight" (1993).  In 2008, "The Times" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
  Title: The Born Loser
  Passage: The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965.  His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist.  The strip is distributed by United Features Syndicate.  The Sansoms won the 1987 National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award and the 1990 Newspaper Comic Strip Award.
  Title: Bart Dickon
  Passage: Bart Dickon is a character created by artist and writer Borin Van Loon.  Dickon, styled as 'The Ideologically-Sound Secret Agent', first appeared in comic strip form in the British publication 'Brain Damage' (later 'The Damage') in the late eighties.  This surrealist collage comic strip was entitled 'A Severed Head' (named after an Iris Murdoch novel).  This continued briefly in 'Talking Turkey', then as a regular feature in the rock/culture fanzine Sun Zoom Spark (named incidentally after a Captain Beefheart song on the 'Clear Spot' album; references to Captain Beefheart lyrics occasionally appear in Bart Dickon stories).
  Title: Eric Stephens (comics)
  Passage: Eric Stephens (1909–2001) was a British comic strip artist who contributed to "Jack and Jill", drawing episodes of the cover strip 'Jack and Jill of Buttercup Farm' and colouring a number of centre-spread features such as 'There Was An Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe' and 'Our Village'.  Stephens also contributed episodes of 'Sonny and Sally' to "Playhour" and 'Paddington Park' to "Bonnie".
  Title: The Adventures of Jane
  Passage: The Adventures of Jane is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Edward G. Whiting.  It is the film version of the stage show based on the comic strip 'Jane' originally created by Norman Pett.  It was written by Alfred Goulding and Con West.  The cast included Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, who played Jane, and Michael Hogarth, who played Tom Hawke.  It was filmed in Brighton, East Sussex, England.
  Title: Ilkka Heilä
  Passage: Ilkka Heilä, 1956 Ekenäs, is a Finnish cartoonist who lives in Kaarina.  He draws "B. Virtanen" -comic strip.  Comics by Heilä appeared as early as in the beginning of 1970s in the comic magazine "Sarjis".  However, working in a post office replaced professional self-fulfillment of artistic tendencies the nearly 20 years period, until then he created Bulls-syndicate of his comic strip B. Virtanen and took part in comic competition arranged by newspaper "Uusi Suomi" in 1989.  Thanks to this comic strip, Heilä could at last in the 1990s move to a full-time comic artist.  He got the Puupäähattu, a valued Finnish comic prize of Suomen Sarjakuvaseura (Finnish Comic Club) in year 2006.
  Title: There She Is!!
  Passage: There She Is!!  (Korean: 떳다 그녀!!)  is a Flash cartoon series produced by a three-person team and hosted on the Korean website SamBakZa.  The cartoons became particularly popular during the spring of 2004 when they were exposed to American and European audiences.  The series is originated from Comic strip 'One day'(Korean: 어떤날) which has been published from November 2000 until March 2002 on Braille newspaper 'Newspaper that we read together'(Hangul: 함께 읽는 신문) that is published by Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo.  The series is noted for its classic manhwa style elements and its high-quality animation.  The first "There she is!!"  generated a large amount of positive feedback from its online audience, including fan art, which drove SamBakZa to produce more cartoons in the series.
citations: Iris Murdoch Bart Dickon