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 | Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (d. 1943) |
| 1906 | Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982) |
| 1907 | Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1979) |
| 1907 | Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003) |
| 1906 | Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (d. 1971) |
| 1906 | Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Fei Mu, Chinese director and screenwriter (d. 1951) |
| 1906 | Charles Exbrayat, French author and screenwriter (d. 1989) |
| 1906 | Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (d. 1966) |
| 1906 | Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) |
| 1906 | J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (d. 1985) |
| 1906 | R. K. Narayan, Indian author (d. 2001) |
| 1906 | Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987) |
| 1906 | R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic (d. 1993) |
| 1906 | William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970) |
| 1906 | Fernando Germani, Italian organist (d. 1998) |
| 1906 | Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (d. 1959) |
| 1907 | Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Jim Thompson, American businessman (d. 1967) |
| 1906 | Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1972) |
| 1906 | Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1978) |
| 1907 | Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest and philologist (d. 2001) |
| 1906 | Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (d. 1996) |
| 1906 | Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (d. 2001) |
| 1906 | Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal (d. 1983) |
| 1906 | Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author (d. 1980) |
| 1906 | Bea Benaderet, Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (d. 1968) |
| 1906 | Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (d. 2001) |
| 1906 | André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist (d. 1999) |
| 1906 | Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2002) |