Events
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
Births
- 1960 - Takashi Miike, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 - Hideo Kojima, director and producer
- 1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler
- 1987 - Daichi Miura, singer-songwriter, dancer, and choreographer
- 1988 - Maya Yoshida, footballer
Deaths
- 1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi (b. 1898), director and screenwriter
- 2010 - Satoshi Kon (b. 1963), director and screenwriter
Film and television
- 2013 - Gatchaman, a tokusatsu film starring Tori Matsuzaka, Gō Ayano, Ayame Goriki, Tatsuomi Hamada, and Ryohei Suzuki