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 | Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012) |
| 1912 | Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 1912 | Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010) |
| 1913 | Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005) |
| 1912 | Judah Nadich, American colonel and rabbi (d. 2007) |
| 1912 | Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer (d. 2013) |
| 1912 | Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (d. 1963) |
| 1912 | Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (d. 2016) |
| 1912 | Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (d. 1986) |
| 1912 | Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (d. 2011) |
| 1912 | John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1982) |
| 1912 | Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| 1913 | Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994) |
| 1912 | Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 1912 | Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (d. 2012) |
| 1912 | Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (d. 1961) |
| 1912 | Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (d. 2002) |
| 1912 | Terry Moore, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1995) |
| 1912 | Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) |
| 1912 | Peter Walker, English race car driver (d. 1984) |
| 1912 | Henry Armstrong, American boxer (d. 1988) |
| 1912 | Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War (d. 2006) |
| 1913 | Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (d. 2012) |
| 1912 | Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) |
| 1912 | Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 1912 | Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (d. 2004) |
| 1913 | Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (d. 1990) |
| 1912 | Otto Ernst Remer, German general (d. 1997) |
| 1912 | Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (d. 1978) |
| 1912 | William Lederer, American soldier and author (d. 2009) |