Events
- 1943 - Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not considered a city.)
- 1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
Births
- 1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Japanese-American actress and singer
- 1920 - Harold Sakata (d. 1982), Japanese-American wrestler and actor
- 1946 - Masaharu Satō, voice actor
- 1947 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, race car driver
- 1956 - Takayuki Godai, actor
- 1977 - Keigo Hayashi, musician
- 1990 - Natsuki Sato, singer
- 1994 - Anri Okamoto, model and actress
Film and television
- 1999 - Rasen begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Goro Kishitani
- 2002 - Lunch no Joō begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yūko Takeuchi, Yōsuke Eguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, and Shinichi Tsutsumi
- 2012 - Beautiful Rain begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Etsushi Toyokawa and Mana Ashida