Births
- 1763 - Kobayashi Issa (d. 1827), priest and poet
- 1881 - Kesago Nakajima (d. 1945), lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army
- 1926 - Shigeru Kayano (d. 2006), activist
- 1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki, singer and actress
- 1967 - Yūji Ueda, voice actor and singer
- 1981 - Yuki Kubota, model and actor
- 1988 - Miku Ishida, singer and actress
- 1990 - Miwa, singer-songwriter
- 1991 - Rina Takeda, actress and black belt
- 1993 - Kanna Arihara, singer
- 1994 - Rina Hidaka, voice actress