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 | Piero Taruffi, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1988) |
| 1906 | Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992) |
| 1906 | Vera Tanner, English swimmer (d. 1971) |
| 1907 | Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000) |
| 1906 | Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) |
| 1907 | Douglas Corrigan, American pilot and engineer (d. 1995) |
| 1906 | R. K. Narayan, Indian author (d. 2001) |
| 1906 | Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969) |
| 1906 | Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (d. 1967) |
| 1906 | Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler (d. 1996) |
| 1906 | Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975) |
| 1906 | Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (d. 1997) |
| 1906 | Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966) |
| 1906 | Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004) |
| 1906 | Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician (d. 1992) |
| 1906 | Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and educator (d. 1970) |
| 1907 | Günter Eich, German author and songwriter (d. 1972) |
| 1906 | Andrey Tikhonov, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 1993) |
| 1906 | Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (d. 1973) |
| 1906 | Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998) |
| 1907 | Joseph Kearns, American actor (d. 1962) |
| 1906 | Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000) |
| 1906 | Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001) |
| 1906 | Mimi Smith, English nurse (d. 1991) |
| 1906 | Paul Creston, American composer and educator (d. 1985) |
| 1906 | Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (d. 1937) |
| 1906 | Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002) |
| 1907 | Maurice Couve de Murville, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999) |