Born in 1920, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1920 is the Year of the Monkey and it is the Metal element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1920 are Monkeys. The Chinese Monkey year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 20 February 1920 and 7 February 1921 are considered born in the Chinese year 1920 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. 1920 is also known as the Year of the Metal Monkey. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1920 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Monkey and 1920
Famous People Born in the Year of the Monkey and Chinese Year 1920. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Monkey 1920. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1920 | Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984) |
| 1921 | Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (d. 1990) |
| 1920 | Bob Waterfield, American football player and coach (d. 1983) |
| 1920 | Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Gino Valenzano, Italian race car driver (d. 2011) |
| 1920 | Usha Mehta, Gandhian and freedom fighter of India (d. 2000) |
| 1920 | Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and painter (d. 2002) |
| 1920 | Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2014) |
| 1920 | Traudl Junge, German secretary (d. 2002) |
| 1920 | Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Ralph Meeker, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 1920 | François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997) |
| 1920 | Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004) |
| 1920 | Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (d. 2014) |
| 1920 | Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994) |
| 1920 | Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1976) |
| 1920 | Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002) |
| 1920 | Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002) |
| 1920 | Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (d. 2005) |
| 1920 | Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer (d. 1997) |
| 1920 | Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet, educator, and activist (d. 1993) |
| 1920 | Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian activist, philosopher, and spiritual leader (d. 2003) |
| 1920 | Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (d. 1986) |
| 1920 | Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2016) |
| 1920 | Michèle Morgan, French-American actress and singer (d. 2016) |
| 1920 | Fernando Riera, Chilean football player and manager (d. 2010) |
| 1920 | Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001) |