Sports

• Yukio Endo

  Japanese athlete.

  • 1964 Olympic gymnastics gold medal winner for Individual All Around (see list of Gold Medalists in the Individual All-around)
  • 1964 Olympic gymnastics gold medal winner for Parallel Bars (see list of Gold Medalists in Individual Gymnastics Events)

The Literary World

• Yukio Mishima (born 1925, died 1970)

  Pseudonym of Japanese novelist and playwright Kimitake Hiraoka, who committed seppuku (ritual suicide) in a plea for Japanese rearmament.

  • Wrote Confessions of a Mask (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
  • Author of The Sound of Waves (see list of Authors of some of the most frequently banned books between 1990-99, in the United States)