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August 13:

Events
 * 1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
 * 1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.

Births
 * 1955 - Hideo Fukuyama, race car driver
 * 1960 - Koji Kondo, conductor
 * 1965 - Hayato Matsuo, composer and conductor
 * 1969 - Midori Ito, figure skater
 * 1973 - Ryoko Shinohara, singer and actress
 * 1979 - Taizō Sugimura, politician
 * 1986 - Yasuhisa Furuhara, actor
 * 1990 - Sae Miyazawa, singer and actress

Deaths
 * 1965 - Hayato Ikeda (b. 1899), politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan