Born in 1918, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
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.
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Famous people from the Year of the Horse and 1918
Famous People Born in the Year of the Horse and Chinese Year 1918. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Horse 1918. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
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| 1919 | Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (d. 1992) |
| 1918 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016) |
| 1918 | Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (d. 2008) |
| 1919 | Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | P. H. Newby, English soldier and author (d. 1997) |
| 1918 | Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) |
| 1919 | Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager (d. 2004) |
| 1918 | Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (d. 2004) |
| 1918 | B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014) |
| 1918 | Pyotr Masherov, Leader of Soviet Belarus (d. 1980) |
| 1918 | Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (d. 1990) |
| 1918 | Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1955) |
| 1918 | William Jay Smith, American poet and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | William Holden, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 1918 | Orville Freeman, American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003) |
| 1918 | Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and coach (d. 2017) |
| 1918 | George Lynch, American race car driver (d. 1997) |
| 1918 | Samuel Victor Perry, English biochemist and rugby player (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Richard Ellmann, American author and critic (d. 1987) |
| 1918 | Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2017) |
| 1919 | Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Hsuan Hua, Chinese-American monk and author (d. 1995) |
| 1918 | Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) |
| 1918 | Josephine Webb, American engineer |
| 1918 | Stubby Kaye, American entertainer (d. 1997) |
| 1918 | E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996) |
| 1918 | Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist (d. 2022) |