Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 19

September 19:

Births
 * 1908 - Tatsuo Shimabuku (d. 1975), martial artist
 * 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1949 - Sayoko Yamaguchi (d. 2007), model and actress
 * 1966 - Yoshihiro Takayama, wrestler and mixed martial artist
 * 1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, singer, producer, and actor
 * 1981 - Rika Fujiwara, tennis player
 * 1986 - Ken Gushi, race car driver
 * 1990 - Saki Fukuda, actress and singer
 * 1996 - Haruka Kodama, singer

Deaths
 * 1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo (b. 1288)
 * 1902 - Masaoka Shiki (b. 1867), poet, author, and critic