Born in 1923, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1923 is the Year of the Pig and it is the Water element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1923 are Pigs. The Chinese Pig year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 16 February 1923 and 4 February 1924 are considered born in the Chinese year 1923 and are a Pig sign. In addition, each Pig 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. 1923 is also known as the Year of the Water Pig. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1923 is Yin (-) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Pig and 1923
Famous People Born in the Year of the Pig and Chinese Year 1923. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Pig 1923. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Alice Gibson, Belizean chief librarian and educator |
| 1923 | Ted Knight, American actor and comedian (d. 1986) |
| 1923 | Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American soldier and chemist |
| 1923 | Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2019) |
| 1924 | Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2011) |
| 1924 | Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002) |
| 1923 | Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012) |
| 1923 | Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (d. 2003) |
| 1923 | Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 2001) |
| 1923 | Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (d. 2013) |
| 1923 | Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (d. 1980) |
| 1923 | Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese karateka (d. 1994) |
| 1923 | Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet (d. 2006) |
| 1923 | John Toner, American football player and coach (d. 2014) |
| 1923 | Helen Delich Bentley, American politician (d. 2016) |
| 1923 | Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013) |
| 1923 | Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Bonnie Guitar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019) |
| 1923 | Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (d. 2014) |
| 1923 | Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentinian golfer (d. 2017) |
| 1923 | Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997) |
| 1923 | Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017) |
| 1923 | Erland Josephson, Swedish actor and director (d. 2012) |
| 1923 | Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (d. 2012) |
| 1923 | Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013) |
| 1923 | Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (d. 1995) |
| 1923 | Pierre Cossette, American producer and manager (d. 2009) |
| 1923 | Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (d. 1986) |