Born in 1908, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?

1. Chinese Zodiac Signs
2. 1908 Chinese Zodiac

According to Chinese Astrology, 1908 is the Year of the Monkey and it is the Earth element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1908 are Monkeys. The Chinese Monkey year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 2 February 1908 and 21 January 1909 are considered born in the Chinese year 1908 and are a Monkey sign. In addition, each Monkey 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. 1908 is also known as the Year of the Earth Monkey. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1908 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.

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Famous people from the Year of the Monkey and 1908

Famous People Born in the Year of the Monkey and Chinese Year 1908. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Monkey 1908. Some of them are the following;

Date	Name
1908	Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1994)
1908	Winston Graham, English author (d. 2003)
1908	Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1908	Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1982)
1908	Kurt Neumann, German director (d. 1958)
1908	Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (d. 1975)
1908	Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (d. 1986)
1908	Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1909	Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
1908	Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975)
1908	Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
1908	Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player, pianist, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)
1909	Brenda Forbes, English-American actress (d. 1996)
1908	Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
1908	Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1908	Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1989)
1908	Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1908	Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot (d. 1998)
1908	Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (d. 1963)
1909	Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (d. 2009)
1908	Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1908	Chu Berry, American saxophonist (d. 1941)
1908	Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
1908	Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
1908	Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 2009)
1908	John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
1909	Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1989)
1908	Peter Smith, English cricketer (d. 1967)
1908	Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1956)
1908	Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997)