Chigusa Nagayo

Chigusa Nagayo is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a member of the Crush Gals with long-time tag team partner Lioness Asuka. In 1995 she founded GAEA Japan and in 2014 created its successor Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling. Nagayo is often regarded as the most popular and one of the greatest and most influential female wrestlers of all time. Wrestling Journalist and historian Dave Meltzer has stated that in the 1980s, the Crush Gals reached a level of popularity in Japan equatable to Hulk Hogan in the United States in the same period, and thereafter Chigusa Nagayo was the most popular woman in wrestling for an extended period until her first retirement in 1989.

8 December 1964

Born on the same birth date (8 December 1964): James Blundell (singer) • Teri Hatcher • Óscar Ramírez (footballer, born 1964)

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Bhavini Purohit • Bob Arum • Claude Balbastre • December 8 • Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole • Ingrid Michaelson • James Blundell (singer) • James Galway • Jesse Sene-Lefao • Maria Josepha of Austria • Mike Mussina • Mikey Robins • Nancy Meyers • Nicki Minaj • Sam Kinison • Thomas Cech

Born in the same month (December 1964): Almir Kayumov • Arvydas Sabonis • Béatrice Dalle • Gary McAllister • Krišjānis Kariņš • Scott Hastings (rugby union) • Stef Blok • Teri Hatcher