Celebrities Born on December 28
People born on December 28th share a birthday and a Sun-sign window, which means they share the part of the chart that says what the life is for. The rest of their charts diverge — different Moons, different Risings, different decades — but the Sun signature on this calendar day is the same. The figures below are the public version of that signature.
Birthday
December 28
What December 28 births tend to share
Here's what tends to happen on a December 28th birthday. The Sun sits in a specific degree window of one sign, and the inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars — orbit within striking distance. That means the people on this page share more than a Sun sign; they tend to share Mercury and Venus by sign too, which is why the temperament of a calendar-day cohort often feels more uniform than a full Sun-sign cohort.
The honest version is that birthdays don't make people identical. They give a person the same starting weather. Different years move different planets through that weather — a December 28th born in one decade meets a different Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto than one born in another. What stays the same across the years is the inner-planet signature. Read it as the family resemblance, not the destiny.
Read the placement in public
Artist
Alasdair Gray
Artist — born 1934-12-28 in Glasgow.
Capricorn Sun · Virgo Moon · Aries Rising
Actor
Denzel Washington
Actor — born 1954-12-28 in Mount Vernon.
Capricorn Sun · Aquarius Moon · Aries Rising
Entrepreneur
Dhirubhai Ambani
Entrepreneur — born 1932-12-28 in Junagadh.
Capricorn Sun · Capricorn Moon · Pisces Rising
Artist
Guy Debord
Artist — born 1931-12-28 in Paris.
Capricorn Sun · Leo Moon · Aries Rising
Athlete
James Blake
Athlete — born 1979-12-28 in Yonkers.
Capricorn Sun · Taurus Moon · Aries Rising
Musician
John Legend
Musician — born 1978-12-28 in Springfield.
Capricorn Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Aries Rising
Scientist
John von Neumann
Scientist — born 1903-12-28 in Budapest.
Capricorn Sun · Aries Moon · Aries Rising
Entrepreneur
Linus Torvalds
Entrepreneur — born 1969-12-28 in Helsinki.
Capricorn Sun · Leo Moon · Aries Rising
Athlete
Patrick Rafter
Athlete — born 1972-12-28 in Mount Isa.
Capricorn Sun · Libra Moon · Pisces Rising
Entrepreneur
Ratan Tata
Entrepreneur — born 1937-12-28 in Mumbai.
Capricorn Sun · Scorpio Moon · Pisces Rising
What these people share
What these people share is the inner-planet weather of one specific date. The Sun, and most of the time the Mercury and Venus, occupy the same signs across all of their charts. The careers and the public roles vary; the temperament does not. If you have read about a December 28 figure and felt a recognisable note, this is the part of the chart you were reading.
Questions answered
Frequently asked
They share a tight band of Sun degree, plus Mercury and Venus within striking distance of that degree. That's three inner planets running through nearby signs, which is more than enough to produce a recognisable family resemblance. The Moon, Rising, and outer planets still vary across people.
No. They share the Sun sign and most of the time Mercury and Venus by sign. Everything else — Moon, Rising, the outer planets — depends on the year and the hour. The biographies on this page are different lives running off the same inner-planet weather.
Astrology doesn't have a luck score. What December 28th has is a specific Sun-Mercury-Venus signature, which determines what a person notices first, how they say it, and what they reach for. Whether that signature gets called "lucky" depends on what the surrounding decade asked of it.
The cards on this page lead with the figures whose birth data we have the highest confidence in. Browse the full list below for the deeper bench.
If you were born on December 28th, the Sun-sign and most likely Mercury and Venus signs are already settled. The Moon and Rising require your birth time and place. Use Astrelle's birth chart calculator to complete the picture.
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