Events
- 2012 - Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
Births
- 1834 - Niwa Nagakuni (d. 1904), daimyo
- 1859 - Tsubouchi Shōyō (d. 1935), author, playwright, and educator
- 1885 - Kansuke Naka (d. 1965), novelist
- 1885 - Soemu Toyoda (d. 1957), admiral
- 1911 - Minoru Kawabata (d. 2001), Japanese-American painter and academic
- 1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1956 - Shinji Morisue, gymnast
- 1960 - Hideaki Anno, animator, director, and screenwriter
- 1980 - Rena Tanaka, actress and television personality
- 1984 - Keita Nakamura, mixed martial artist
- 1985 - Tao Okamoto, model and actress
- 1985 - Hideaki Takeda, footballer
- 1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, singer