Updated at November 24, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Eiji Yoshikawa |
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Birthdate | August 11, 1892 |
Birth Place | Japan |
Age (in 2024) | 132 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Eiji Yoshikawa is best known as Novelist who has born on August 11, 1892 in Japan. Currently, Eiji Yoshikawa is 132 years, 3 months and 13 days old. Eiji Yoshikawa will celebrate 133rd birthday on Monday, 11th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Eiji Yoshikawa upcoming birthday.
A Japanese author known for his historical adventure novels containing elements of Japanese culture and folklore, he is most famous for his 1935 novel, Miyamoto Musashi. His other works include Taiko ki and Wasurenokori no ki.
He wrote poetry and comics throughout his youth. In 1914, his early novel, The Tale of Enoshima, won a literary contest sponsored by a prominent Japanese publisher.
Four of his novels have been translated into English.
He was married twice: first, to Yasu Akazawa, and later to Fumiko Ikedo.
He was a recipient of Japan's prestigious Order of the Sacred Treasure, as was W. Edwards Deming .
Eiji Yoshikawa is 132 years old today.
Eiji Yoshikawa was born on August 11, 1892 in Japan.
Eiji Yoshikawa zodiac sign is Leo.
Eiji Yoshikawa was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Eiji Yoshikawa's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. |
1969 | The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. |
1975 | East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. |
1979 | Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. |
1982 | A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. |
1984 | "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. |
1988 | A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. |
1992 | The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. |
2000 | An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. |
2003 | NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
2003 | Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2006 | The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. |
2012 | At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. |
2017 | At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. |
1987 | The birth of Drew Storen, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Patty Mills, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Sebastian Huke, German footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lenka JurÃková, Slovak tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator |
1994 | The birth of Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Barbato, French footballer |
1994 | The birth of Song I-han, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer |
2001 | The birth of Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903) |
2017 | The death of Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) |
2018 | The death of V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Trini Lopez, Mexican American singer and guitarist (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969) |
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