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)