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- Jiro Horikoshi was born on June 22, 1903 in Fujioka, Japan. He died on January 11, 1982 in Tokyo, Japan.
- The animated film The Wind Rises (2013) is a very fast-and-loose biopic of him. He is played by Hideaki Anno in the original soundtrack, and by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the English-language dub.
- Designer of many of the Japanese fighting aircraft used in WWII, including the legendary Mitsubishi A6M "Zero.".
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