Born in 1906, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
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?
Famous people from the Year of the Horse and 1906
Famous People Born in the Year of the Horse and Chinese Year 1906. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Horse 1906. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (d. 1991) |
| 1906 | Ilse Koch, German war criminal (d. 1967) |
| 1906 | Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (d. 1967) |
| 1906 | Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) |
| 1906 | Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 1906 | Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (d. 1980) |
| 1906 | Herbert Wehner, German politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (d. 1990) |
| 1906 | Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996) |
| 1907 | Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, tenth United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004) |
| 1906 | Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1960) |
| 1906 | George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (d. 1972) |
| 1906 | Edgar Wayburn, American physician and environmentalist (d. 2010) |
| 1906 | Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010) |
| 1906 | Russell C. Newhouse, American pilot and engineer (d. 1998) |
| 1906 | Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 1906 | Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (d. 2004) |
| 1906 | Zinka Milanov, Croatian-American soprano and educator (d. 1989) |
| 1906 | Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (d. 1973) |
| 1906 | Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) |
| 1906 | Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican poet, linguist, and politician (d. 2008) |
| 1906 | Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (d. 1988) |
| 1906 | Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (d. 1973) |
| 1906 | Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author (d. 1980) |
| 1906 | Dorothy Knowles, South African-English author, fencer and academic (d. 2010) |
| 1906 | Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer (d. 1955) |
| 1906 | Avery Fisher, American violinist and engineer, founded Fisher Electronics (d. 1994) |
| 1906 | Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish author and activist (d. 2000) |
| 1906 | Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994) |