Events
- 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.
Births
- 1938 - Mickey Curtis, actor, singer, and television personality
- 1962 - Hiroshi Mikami, actor
- 1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, model and actress
Deaths
- 1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi (b. 1899), engineer
- 1997 - Chuhei Nambu (b. 1904), long jumper