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 | Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) |
| 1918 | Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | Indumati Bhattacharya, Indian politician (d. 1990) |
| 1918 | Robert Walker, American actor (d. 1951) |
| 1918 | Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (d. 2019) |
| 1919 | Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001) |
| 1919 | Leon Kirchner, American composer and educator (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999) |
| 1918 | Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Sten Rudholm, Swedish lawyer and jurist (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Helmut Schmidt, German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (d. 2017) |
| 1918 | Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961) |
| 1918 | Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest (d. 2005) |
| 1918 | Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (d. 2009) |
| 1919 | Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (d. 1990) |
| 1919 | William Morris Meredith, Jr., American poet and academic (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Kathryn Tucker Windham, American journalist and author (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Samuel Victor Perry, English biochemist and rugby player (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (d. 2002) |
| 1918 | George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994) |
| 1918 | Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer and systems scientist (d. 2016) |