Events
- 1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den
- 1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
Births
- 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni (d. 1701), daimyo
- 1966 - Kentaro Miura, author and illustrator
- 1971 - Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1975 - Riona Hazuki, actress
- 1982 - Ryoji Morimoto, actor
- 1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, actress
- 1984 - Hokuto "Hok" Konishi, Japanese-American dancer
- 1985 - Aki Maeda, actress and singer
- 1987 - Shigeaki Kato, musician
- 1988 - Yuka Iguchi, voice actress
Deaths
- 1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi (b. 1947), English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses
Film and television
- 2011 - Full Throttle Girl begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yui Aragaki and Ryo Nishikido
- 2015 - Hatsumori Bemars begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Nanase Nishino
- 2015 - Tag, a suspense action horror film starring Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, and Erina Mano