Born in 1942, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1942 is the Year of the Horse and it is the Water element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1942 are Horses. The Chinese Horse year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 15 February 1942 and 4 February 1943 are considered born in the Chinese year 1942 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. 1942 is also known as the Year of the Water Horse. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1942 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Horse and 1942
Famous People Born in the Year of the Horse and Chinese Year 1942. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Horse 1942. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
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| 1942 | Shane Porteous, Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter |
| 1942 | Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop (d. 2017) |
| 1942 | Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer |
| 1942 | Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and politician |
| 1942 | Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player |
| 1942 | Bill Bryden, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 1942 | Wayne Newton, American singer |
| 1942 | Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994) |
| 1942 | Ian McShane, English actor |
| 1942 | Mike Gibson, Northern Irish-Irish rugby player |
| 1942 | Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer |
| 1942 | Cleon Jones, American baseball player |
| 1942 | Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane |
| 1942 | Howard Brenton, English playwright and screenwriter |
| 1942 | Robert Ballard, American lieutenant and oceanographer |
| 1942 | Fred Jones, Australian rugby league player |
| 1942 | Jeetendra, Indian actor, TV and film producer |
| 1942 | Hu Jintao, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th Paramount leader of China |
| 1942 | Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1942 | Doug Ashdown, Australian singer-songwriter |
| 1942 | John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General |
| 1942 | Butch Otter, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho |
| 1942 | Marsha Mason, American actress |
| 1943 | Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1942 | Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (d. 2003) |
| 1942 | Lee Baca, American police officer |
| 1943 | Princess Margriet of the Netherlands |
| 1942 | Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006) |
| 1942 | Samuel Ramey, American opera singer |
| 1942 | Cyrus Chothia, English biochemist and emeritus scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (d. 2019) |