Born in 1916, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?

According to Chinese Astrology, 1916 is the Year of the Dragon and it is the Fire element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1916 are Dragons. The Chinese Dragon year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 3 February 1916 and 22 January 1917 are considered born in the Chinese year 1916 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. 1916 is also known as the Year of the Fire Dragon. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1916 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.

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Famous people from the Year of the Dragon and 1916

Famous People Born in the Year of the Dragon and Chinese Year 1916. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Dragon 1916. Some of them are the following;
Date Name
1916 Sterling Hayden, American actor and author (d. 1986)
1916 Michael J. Ingelido, American general (d. 2015)
1916 Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)
1916 Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
1917 M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987)
1916 Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1916 Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (d. 1998)
1916 W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player and physician (d. 2013)
1916 Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (d. 2006)
1916 Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic (d. 2020)
1916 Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (d. 2020)
1916 Judith Jasmin, Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
1916 Eddie Arcaro, American jockey and sportscaster (d. 1997)
1916 Eugene McCarthy, American poet and politician (d. 2005)
1916 Emil Fackenheim, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (d. 2003)
1916 Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1916 Lívia Rév, Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
1916 Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1916 Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
1916 Milton Babbitt, American composer and educator (d. 2011)
1916 François Mitterrand, French lawyer and politician, 21st President of France (d. 1996)
1916 Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
1916 Dena Epstein, American musicologist and author (d. 2013)
1916 Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
1916 John Jacob Rhodes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1916 Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
1916 Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (d. 1985)
1916 Frederick C. Weyand, American general (d. 2010)
1916 Lee Jung-seob, Korean painter (d. 1956)
1916 Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian