According to Chinese Astrology, 1906 is the Year of the Horse and it is the Fire element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1906 are Horses. The Chinese Horse year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 25 January 1906 and 12 February 1907 are considered born in the Chinese year 1906 and are a Horse sign. In addition, each Horse year is also represented by 5 elements in Chinese astrology that express character and behavior. Therefore, each year it is referred to with a different zodiac animal name and a different element name, and this repeats only once in 60 years. 1906 is also known as the Year of the Fire Horse. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1906 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Horse?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Johnny Indrisano, American boxer (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970) |
| 1906 | Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1993) |
| 1906 | Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955) |
| 1906 | León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996) |
| 1906 | Bea Benaderet, Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and educator (d. 1970) |
| 1906 | Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer (d. 2003) |
| 1906 | Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician (d. 1992) |
| 1906 | André Filho, Brazilian musician and songwriter (d. 1974) |
| 1906 | Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 1906 | Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-Canadian chess master (d. 2017) |
| 1906 | Walter Robins, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) |
| 1906 | John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995) |
| 1906 | Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (d. 1973) |
| 1906 | Julia Boyer Reinstein, American teacher and historian (d. 1998) |
| 1906 | Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987) |
| 1906 | Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949) |
| 1906 | Erika Fuchs, German translator (d. 2005) |
| 1906 | Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | Hugh Gaitskell, British politician and leader of the Labour Party (d. 1963) |
| 1906 | René Huyghe, French historian and author (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Franz Waxman, German-American composer and conductor (d. 1967) |