Naomi Uemura's birthday

Source: http://www.google.co.jp/logos/2011/naomiuemura11-hp.jpg

Naomi Uemura was a Japanese adventurer. He was particularly well known for doing alone what had previously been achieved only with large teams. For example, he was the first person ever to reach the North Pole solo, the first ever to raft the Amazon solo, and the first ever to climb Mount McKinley solo. [Read more on Wikipedia]