Events
- 1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
- 1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
Births
- 1955 - Hideo Fukuyama, race car driver
- 1960 - Koji Kondo, conductor
- 1965 - Hayato Matsuo, composer and conductor
- 1969 - Midori Ito, figure skater
- 1973 - Ryoko Shinohara, singer and actress
- 1979 - Taizō Sugimura, politician
- 1986 - Yasuhisa Furuhara, actor
- 1990 - Sae Miyazawa, singer and actress
Deaths
- 1965 - Hayato Ikeda (b. 1899), politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan