Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/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