Kakuei Tanaka

Kakuei Tanaka was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974. He served in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1990. As prime minister, Tanaka advocated large-scale infrastructure development and oversaw the normalization diplomatic relations with China. Afterwards he was arrested in connection to the Lockheed bribery scandals, but nevertheless exercised a dominant influence on Japanese politics until suffering a stroke in 1985.

4 May 1918

Born on the same birth day (4 May): Colin Bass • Devan Dubnyk • Dick Dale • Frederic Edwin Church • Katherine Ferrers • Manuel Contreras • Manuel Tolsá • Radja Nainggolan • Tyagaraja • Will Arnett

Born in the same month (May 1918): Aleksandra Boiko • Arthur Jackson (sport shooter) • Coleman Young • Denis Compton • Edward B. Lewis • Jack Paar • Joan Benham • Johnny Wayne • Joseph Wiseman • Mary Kay Ash • Pita Amor • Richard Feynman • Yasuhiro Nakasone • Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan