Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.

5 April 1955

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1955): Anthony Horowitz • Bernard Longley • Charlotte de Turckheim • Christian Gourcuff • Ricardo Ferrero • Takayoshi Yamano

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Al-Nuwayri • Ann C. Crispin • Erwin l'Ami • Franck Silvestre • Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern • John Wilson (composer) • Jonathan Davies (rugby union, born 1988) • Louis Spohr • Marius Lăcătuș • Oleg Khodkov • Paul Weinstein (athlete) • Peter Penz • Raleb Majadele • Sebastian Starke Hedlund

Born in the same month (April 1955): Américo Gallego • Barbara Kingsolver • Bill Osborne • Charlotte de Turckheim • Christian Gourcuff • Dodi Fayed • Don Hasselbeck • Donald Pettit • Gregg Jarrett • Humayun Akhtar Khan • John de Mol Jr. • Kevin Brady • Kurt Bodewig • Leslie Jordan • Michael O'Keefe • Mike Stroud (physician) • Pradeep Sarkar • Ricardo Ferrero • Rob Epstein • Takayoshi Yamano • Todd Lickliter • Yamina Benguigui