Births
- 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata (d. 1972), writer and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 - Hiroshi Miyauchi, actor
- 1968 - Nene Otsuka, actress
- 1975 - Ryuji Miki, race car driver
- 1983 - Hirofumi Araki, actor and singer
- 1983 - Ayumi Beppu, actress
Film and television
- 2014 - Climbing to Spring, a drama film starring Kenichi Matsuyama, Yū Aoi, Etsushi Toyokawa, and Kaoru Kobayashi