Motobu Chōki

Motobu Chōki was an Okinawan karate master and founder of Motobu-ryū. He was born into a branch of the Ryukyuan royal family, and at the age of 12, he and his older brother Motobu Chōyū were invited by Ankō Itosu to be taught karate.

5 April 1870

Born on the same birth day (5 April): David Chocarro • Ernest Mandel • Kader Amadou • Kaveh Rezaei • Moise Safra • Mompati Thuma • Yoshiichi Watanabe

Born in the same month (April 1870): Dadasaheb Phalke • Edmund Dwyer-Gray • Edwin S. Porter • Franz Lehár • Gustav Landauer • Syd Gregory • Victor Borisov-Musatov • Vladimir Lenin