December 6:
Births
- 1890 - Yoshio Nishina (d. 1951), physicist and academic
- 1950 - Joe Hisaishi, pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1952 - Shio Satō (d. 2010), illustrator
- 1953 - Masami Kurumada, author and illustrator
- 1959 - Satoru Iwata (d. 2015), businessman
- 1960 - Masahiko Katsuya (d. 2018), journalist and photographer
- 1965 - Toshihide Wakamatsu, actor
- 1968 - Akihiro Yano, baseball player
- 1971 - Naozumi Takahashi, singer and voice actor
- 1980 - Kei Yasuda, singer, musician, and actress
- 1988 - Nobunaga Shimazaki, voice actor
- 1994 - Louis Kurihara, model, television personality, and actor
Deaths
Film and television