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Births

885 - Emperor Daigo (d. 930)
1868 - Kantarō Suzuki (d. 1948), admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan
1879 - Tane Ikai (d. 1995), super-centenarian
1921 - Yoichiro Nambu (d. 2015), Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 - Kei Ogura, singer-songwriter and composer
1947 - Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player and journalist
1947 - Takeshi Kitano, actor and director
1966 - Kazufumi Miyazawa, singer
1973 - Shinobu Nakayama, actress and singer
1979 - Hirofumi Arai, Japanese-Korean actor
1984 - Makoto Hasebe, footballer
1986 - Ikusaburo Yamazaki, actor and singer

Film and television