According to Chinese Astrology, 1918 is the Year of the Horse and it is the Earth element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1918 are Horses. The Chinese Horse year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 11 February 1918 and 31 January 1919 are considered born in the Chinese year 1918 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. 1918 is also known as the Year of the Earth Horse. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1918 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Horse?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence (d. 2000) |
| 1918 | Donald Featherstone, English soldier and author (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1961) |
| 1918 | K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 2010) |
| 1918 | Joan Benham, English actress (d. 1981) |
| 1919 | George Cadle Price, Belizean politician, first Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (d. 1995) |
| 1918 | Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, and writer (d. 2002) |
| 1919 | Milton Parker, American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | William Bronk, American poet and academic (d. 1999) |
| 1918 | Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987) |
| 1918 | Marjorie Lord, American actress (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961) |
| 1918 | Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 1918 | Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (d. 2004) |
| 1918 | Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor and director (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Albertina Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001) |
| 1918 | Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (d. 1985) |
| 1918 | Fred Wacker, American race driver and engineer (d. 1998) |
| 1919 | Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979) |
| 1918 | Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel and politician; 9th President of Austria (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Georgia Louise Harris Brown, American architect (d. 1999) |
| 1918 | Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (d. 2013) |