Events
Births
- 1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu (d. 1623), daimyo
- 1907 - Keizō Hayashi (d. 1991), civil servant and military official
- 1926 - Hanae Mori, fashion designer
- 1941 - Yoshinori Watanabe (d. 2012), mobster
- 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1942 - Junko Maya, actress
- 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, manga writer and artist
- 1968 - Bull Nakano, wrestler and golfer
- 1975 - Reiko Chiba, actress, voice actress, model, and singer
- 1986 - Maria Ozawa, Japanese-Canadian porn actress and model
- 1991 - Asuka Hinoi, singer
Deaths
- 2007 - Iwao Takamoto (b. 1925), Japanese-American animator, director, and producer
Film and television
- 2001 - Hero begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takuya Kimura
- 2012 - Penance begins airing on WOWOW, starring Kyōko Koizumi, Yū Aoi, Eiko Koike, Sakura Ando, and Chizuru Ikewaki