Events
- 1904 - The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
Births
- 1910 - Edwin O. Reischauer (d. 1990), Japanese-American scholar, diplomat, and educator, United States Ambassador to Japan
- 1958 - Masako Katsuki, voice actress
- 1977 - Masato Kawabata, race car driver
- 1978 - Takeshi Morishima, wrestler
- 1982 - Yōko Maki, actress
- 1982 - Sachiko Yamada, swimmer
- 1990 - Kiko Mizuhara, American-Japanese model, actress, and singer
Film and television
- 2007 - Galileo begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Kō Shibasaki and Masaharu Fukuyama