Events
- 1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
- 1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
Births
- 1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1968 - Yuri Shiratori, voice actress and singer
- 1972 - Anna Umemiya, television personality and model
- 1982 - Enyelbert Soto, Venezuelan-Japanese baseball player
- 1984 - Mirai Moriyama, actor
- 1986 - Ryo Katsuji, actor