Born in 1908, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
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 | Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1994) |
| 1908 | Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) |
| 1908 | Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot and general (d. 2006) |
| 1909 | Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer (d. 1939) |
| 1908 | Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995) |
| 1908 | Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990) |
| 1908 | Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970) |
| 1908 | Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001) |
| 1908 | Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator (d. 1976) |
| 1908 | William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988) |
| 1909 | Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and conductor (d. 2000) |
| 1908 | Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004) |
| 1908 | Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (d. 2007) |
| 1908 | Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000) |
| 1908 | Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985) |
| 1908 | Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007) |
| 1908 | Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994) |
| 1908 | Al López, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005) |
| 1908 | William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 1981) |
| 1908 | Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist (d. 1986) |
| 1908 | Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (d. 1999) |
| 1908 | Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 2004) |
| 1908 | Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist (d. 1963) |
| 1908 | Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress (d. 1990) |
| 1908 | Telford Taylor, American general, lawyer, and historian (d. 1998) |
| 1908 | Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2010) |
| 1908 | Léo Cadieux, Canadian journalist and politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2005) |
| 1908 | Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992) |
| 1908 | Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973) |
| 1908 | Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |