Naoko Takeuchi is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her manga series Codename: Sailor V and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon. She earned the 2nd Nakayoshi Comic Prize for Newcomers in 1985 for Yume ja Nai no Ne and the 1986 New Artist award for Love Call. Her next manga Sailor Moon, went on to become one of the most popular and successful manga around the world, with over 35 million copies sold worldwide. In 1993, she earned the Kodansha Manga Award for the series. Overseas, Sailor Moon's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting Japanese animation's popularity in the Western world. 

March 15th, 1967 in K?fu (Age 57)