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October 11:

Events
 * 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Cape Esperance begins
 * 1943 - World War II: The USS Wahoo submarine is sunk off the coast of Cape Sōya in the La Pérouse Strait
 * 1997 - The inaugural event of Pride Fighting Championships is held in the Tokyo Dome
 * 2005 - The city of Hokota, Ibaraki is created from the merger of several towns and villages

Births
 * 1901 - Masanobu Tsuji (d. ca.1961), politician, author, and tactician of the Imperial Japanese Army
 * 1946 - Sawao Kato, gymnast and educator
 * 1954 - Atsuko Takahata, actress and voice actress
 * 1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor and singer
 * 1974 - Kane Kosugi, American-Japanese martial artist and actor
 * 1974  - Fumika Suzuki, voice actress, model, and race queen
 * 1977 - Shūhei Izumi, actor
 * 1978 - Takuya Kawaguchi, footballer
 * 1979 - Reiko Takagaki, model and actress
 * 1980 - Motohiro Hata, singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1980  - Tomokazu Sugita, voice actor
 * 1985 - Aya Kiguchi, model
 * 1988 - Rika Izumi, model, actress, and singer

Film and television
 * 1999 - Ainori begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Masami Hisamoto, Kōji Imada, and Haruhiko Katō
 * 2005 - 1 Litre no Namida begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Erika Sawajiri and Ryō Nishikido
 * 2014 - Cape Nostalgia, a drama film starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yūko Takeuchi, and Shōfukutei Tsurube II
 * 2015 - Angel Heart begins airing on Nippon TV, starring Takaya Kamikawa, Ayaka Miyoshi, and Saki Aibu