According to Chinese Astrology, 1912 is the Year of the Rat and it is the Water element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1912 are Rats. The Chinese Rat year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 18 February 1912 and 5 February 1913 are considered born in the Chinese year 1912 and are a Rat sign. In addition, each Rat 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. 1912 is also known as the Year of the Water Rat. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1912 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Rat?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1912 | Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010) |
| 1912 | May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995) |
| 1912 | Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010) |
| 1913 | Carroll Cloar, American artist (d. 1993) |
| 1912 | John Cage, American composer and theorist (d. 1992) |
| 1912 | Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (d. 2011) |
| 1912 | Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943) |
| 1912 | Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (d. 2012) |
| 1912 | Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright (d. 2009) |
| 1912 | Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986) |
| 1912 | Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002) |
| 1912 | Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996) |
| 1912 | Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (d. 2015) |
| 1912 | Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (d. 1980) |
| 1912 | Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (d. 1978) |
| 1912 | Herb Narvo, Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (d. 1958) |
| 1913 | Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist (d. 2003) |
| 1912 | John Frost, Indian-English general (d. 1993) |
| 1913 | Miriam Hyde, Australian pianist and composer (d. 2005) |
| 1912 | Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic (d. 2011) |
| 1912 | Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| 1912 | Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (d. 1979) |
| 1912 | Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (d. 1961) |
| 1912 | Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980) |
| 1912 | Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (d. 2012) |
| 1912 | Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (d. 2005) |
| 1913 | Mehmet Shehu, Albanian soldier and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1981) |
| 1912 | Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 85th President of Peru (d. 2002) |
| 1912 | Adile Ayda, Turkish engineer and diplomat (d. 1992) |
| 1912 | Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (d. 1999) |