Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波 (born December 28, 1955) – Chinese professor, human rights activist, 2010 Nobel Prize winner
Shen Congwen (Shen Ts’ung-wen) 沈從文 (born December 28, 1902) Chinese novelist – The Long River / Chang He (长河)
Mortimer J. Adler (born December 28, 1902) U.S. philosopher, essayist – How To Read a Book (1940)