Events
- 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
Births
- 1265 - Emperor Fushimi (d. 1317)
- 1895 - Kama Chinen (d. 2010), super-centenarian
- 1931 - Ichirō Nagai (d. 2014), voice actor
- 1961 - Ayako Fuji, singer
- 1967 - Nobuhiro Takeda, footballer and sportscaster
- 1993 - Mirai Shida, actress