Wat Misaka
Wataru Misaka was an American professional basketball player. A 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) point guard of Japanese descent, he broke a color barrier in professional basketball by being the first non-white player and the first player of Asian descent to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), known then as the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
21 December 1923
Born on the same birth day (21 December): Emiliano Brembilla • George W. Fuller • Giuseppina Leone • Leopold von Ranke • Luigi d'Este • Taylor Teagarden
Born in the same month (December 1923): Betsy Blair • Bob Dorough • Bruno Bobak • Charles Keating • Clorindo Testa • Dewey Martin (actor) • Eagle Keys • Freeman Dyson • Gerard Reve • Gordon Jackson (actor) • Jaroslav Pelikan • John Krish • Morton Estrin • Philip W. Anderson • Pierre Cossette • Prakash Vir Shastri • René Girard • Rudolph Pariser • Trevor Bailey • Uziel Gal