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 |
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| 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 |