Born in 1912, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
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.
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Famous people from the Year of the Rat and 1912
Famous People Born in the Year of the Rat and Chinese Year 1912. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Rat 1912. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1912 | Reta Shaw, American actress (d. 1982) |
| 1912 | Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (d. 1963) |
| 1912 | Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge (d. 2003) |
| 1912 | Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 1912 | Dan Reeves, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1971) |
| 1912 | Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1912 | Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979) |
| 1912 | Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) |
| 1912 | Erwin Bauer, German race car driver (d. 1958) |
| 1912 | Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010) |
| 1912 | Otto Ernst Remer, German general (d. 1997) |
| 1912 | Fritz Fischer, German physician (d. 2003) |
| 1912 | John Levy, American bassist and businessman (d. 2012) |
| 1912 | David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979) |
| 1912 | Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999) |
| 1912 | Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986) |
| 1912 | E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (d. 2016) |
| 1913 | Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player (d. 1996) |
| 1912 | Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002) |
| 1912 | Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (d. 1982) |
| 1912 | John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (d. 1986) |
| 1912 | Carlos "Botong" Francisco, Filipino painter (d. 1969) |
| 1912 | Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1980) |
| 1912 | Joseph Stein, American playwright and author (d. 2010) |
| 1912 | Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954) |
| 1912 | Judah Nadich, American colonel and rabbi (d. 2007) |
| 1912 | Arline Judge, American actress and singer (d. 1974) |
| 1912 | Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (d. 2004) |
| 1912 | Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist (d. 2010) |
| 1912 | Peter Leo Gerety, American prelate (d. 2016) |