Events
- 1944 - World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort
Births
- 1871 - Sada Yacco (d. 1946), actress and dancer
- 1889 - Kōichi Kido (d. 1977), politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan
- 1906 - S. I. Hayakawa (d. 1992), Japanese-Canadian-American educator and politician
- 1969 - The Great Sasuke, wrestler and politician
- 1980 - Ryōko Hirosue, actress and singer
- 1991 - Mizuki Yamamoto, actress and model
Deaths
- 1965 - Otozō Yamada (b. 1881), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
- 2007 - Kenji Miyamoto (b. 1908), communist politician