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 |
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| 1906 | Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) |
| 1906 | James Bausch, American decathlete and football player (d. 1974) |
| 1906 | Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer (d. 1989) |
| 1906 | S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic and politician (d. 1992) |
| 1906 | Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984) |
| 1906 | Jim Smith, English cricketer (d. 1979) |
| 1907 | Günter Eich, German author and songwriter (d. 1972) |
| 1906 | Horst Schumann, German SS officer and physician (d. 1983) |
| 1906 | Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom (d. 1995) |
| 1906 | Zinka Milanov, Croatian-American soprano and educator (d. 1989) |
| 1906 | Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966) |
| 1906 | J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (d. 1985) |
| 1906 | Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer (d. 1955) |
| 1906 | John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 1906 | Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970) |
| 1906 | Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985) |
| 1906 | Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987) |
| 1907 | Carlo Cavagnoli, Italian boxer (d. 1991) |
| 1906 | Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010) |
| 1906 | Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (d. 1996) |
| 1906 | Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician (d. 1990) |
| 1906 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (d. 1945) |
| 1906 | Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-American potter and designer (d. 2011) |
| 1906 | Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d. 1991) |
| 1907 | Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 1986) |
| 1906 | Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (d. 1970) |
| 1906 | Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944) |
| 1906 | Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (d. 1973) |
| 1906 | Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |