Minoru Chiaki

Bio: Minoru Chiaki was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai, he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed.

Born: July 30, 1917 in Hokkaido, Japan (some sources say 28 April 1917)