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): Elihu Yale • Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern • Janet Rowley • Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt • Laima Zilporytė • Liang Yusheng • Marie Jules César Savigny • Pharrell Williams • Quade Cooper • Stephen Jackson • Émile de Laveleye

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