Liang Yusheng

Chen Wentong, better known by his pen name Liang Yusheng, was a Chinese-born Australian novelist best known for being a pioneer of the "new school" of the wuxia genre in the 20th century. Along with Jin Yong and Gu Long, he was one of the best known wuxia writers in the later half of the 20th century. Throughout his career, he published a total of 35 wuxia novels – the more notable ones include Baifa Monü Zhuan, Yunhai Yugong Yuan, Qijian Xia Tianshan and Pingzong Xiaying Lu – and some have been adapted into films and television series, including The Bride with White Hair (1993) and Seven Swords (2005). ^{Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (d. 2009)}

5 April 1926

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1926): Roger Corman

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Bette Davis • Edem Rjaïbi • Felix Lichnowsky • Feridun Buğeker • Franck Silvestre • Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken • Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas • Henrik Dettmann • Jules Cambon • Lang Tzu-yun • Lasantha Wickrematunge • Robert Bloch • Ruth Smith (artist) • Ryoichi Kawakatsu • Takayoshi Yamano • Trevor Letowski • Vincenzo Gioberti • Vurğun Hüseynov

Born in the same month (April 1926): Arthur Rowley • Bill Blackbeard • Cloris Leachman • David Manker Abshire • Ellie Lambeti • Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner • Gus Grissom • Henry N. Cobb • Hulusi Sayın • Jack Brabham • James Bama • Liz Renay • Patricia Castell • Pierre Fabre (businessman) • Randy Weston • Rifaat el-Mahgoub • Shrinivas Khale • Victor Bouchard