August 1:

Events

• 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

Births

• 1313 - Emperor Kōgon (d. 1364)
• 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu (d. 1433)
• 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, baseball player and manager
• 1959 - Yoshihide Ōtomo, guitarist and songwriter
• 1963 - Koichi Wakata, astronaut and engineer
• 1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, baseball player
• 1975 - Ryoko Yonekura, actress and model
• 1977 - Yoshi Tatsu, wrestler and boxer
• 1982 - Ai Tominaga, model and actress
• 1987 - Rumi Hiiragi, actress
• 1989 - Tomoka Kurokawa, actress
• 1994 - Ayaka Wada, singer

Deaths

• 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa (b. 1179), warlord