Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/November/November 3
Births
- 1852 - Emperor Meiji (d. 1912)
- 1923 - Yamaguchi Hitomi (d. 1995), author and critic
- 1926 - Genzo Kurita (d. 1959), serial killer
- 1928 - Goseki Kojima (d. 2000), illustrator
- 1928 - Osamu Tezuka (d. 1989), animator and producer
- 1930 - Tsutomu Seki, astronomer and academic
- 1936 - Takao Saito, author and illustrator, created Golgo 13
- 1938 - Akira Kobayashi, actor and singer
- 1947 - Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American lawyer and politician, 9th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
- 1948 - Akira Emoto, actor
- 1948 - Takashi Kawamura, politician
- 1949 - Osamu Fujimura, politician
- 1961 - Dave Hahn, Japanese-American mountaineer and journalist
- 1963 - Shigeaki Hattori, race car driver
- 1968 - Seiji Takaiwa, stuntman
- 1976 - Tōko Aoyama, voice actress
- 1978 - Hiroko Sakai, softball player
- 1978 - Koshiro Take, jockey
- 1984 - Ryo Nishikido, singer-songwriter and actor
- 1984 - Mina Fukui, actress and model
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