Born in 1940, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1940 is the Year of the Dragon and it is the Metal element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1940 are Dragons. The Chinese Dragon year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 8 February 1940 and 26 January 1941 are considered born in the Chinese year 1940 and are a Dragon sign. In addition, each Dragon 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. 1940 is also known as the Year of the Metal Dragon. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1940 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Dragon and 1940
Famous People Born in the Year of the Dragon and Chinese Year 1940. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Dragon 1940. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Dallas Long, American shot putter and physician |
| 1940 | Elke Sommer, German actress |
| 1940 | Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer |
| 1940 | Dan Hedaya, American actor |
| 1940 | Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and civil servant |
| 1940 | Nancy Pelosi, American lawyer and politician, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
| 1940 | Jim Roberts, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015) |
| 1940 | André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician |
| 1940 | Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic |
| 1940 | Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player |
| 1940 | Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2001) |
| 1940 | Lance Alworth, American football player |
| 1940 | Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1985) |
| 1940 | Jack Prelutsky, American author and poet |
| 1940 | Chuck Close, American painter and photographer (d. 2021) |
| 1940 | Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 2017) |
| 1940 | Mariette Hartley, American actress and television personality |
| 1940 | Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian lawyer and jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India |
| 1940 | Jackie Smith, American football player |
| 1940 | Peter Pohl, Swedish author, director, and screenwriter |
| 1940 | James Welch, American novelist and poet (d. 2003) |
| 1940 | Adam Makowicz, Polish-Canadian pianist and composer |
| 1940 | Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (d. 1995) |
| 1940 | Uwe Nettelbeck, German record producer, journalist and film critic (d. 2007) |
| 1940 | Ted Koppel, English-American journalist |
| 1941 | Elaine Showalter, American author and critic |
| 1940 | Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2018) |
| 1940 | George Akerlof, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1940 | Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010) |
| 1940 | Billy Fury, English singer-songwriter (d. 1983) |