According to Chinese Astrology, 1921 is the Year of the Rooster and it is the Metal element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1921 are Roosters. The Chinese Rooster year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 8 February 1921 and 27 January 1922 are considered born in the Chinese year 1921 and are a Rooster sign. In addition, each Rooster 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. 1921 is also known as the Year of the Metal Rooster. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1921 is Yin (-) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Rooster?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1921 | Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1995) |
| 1921 | B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist (d. 2022) |
| 1921 | Yves Montand, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1991) |
| 1921 | Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980) |
| 1921 | John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1921 | James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 1921 | Muriel Pavlow, English actress (d. 2019) |
| 1922 | Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (d. 2010) |
| 1921 | Paul Findley, American politician (d. 2019) |
| 1921 | Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2017) |
| 1921 | Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014) |
| 1921 | Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009) |
| 1921 | Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (d. 2009) |
| 1921 | Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016) |
| 1921 | Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012) |
| 1921 | Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977) |
| 1922 | Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994) |
| 1921 | John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013) |
| 1921 | Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020) |
| 1921 | Philip Rose, American actor, playwright, and producer (d. 2011) |
| 1921 | Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1996) |
| 1921 | Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 1921 | Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (d. 2009) |
| 1921 | Michael Horne, English structural engineer, scientist and academic (d. 2000) |
| 1921 | Louis Frémaux, French conductor (d. 2017) |
| 1921 | Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (d. 2007) |
| 1921 | Cleto Bellucci, Italian archbishop (d. 2013) |
| 1921 | Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist and composer (d. 1996) |
| 1921 | Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 1921 | Jim Shumate, American fiddler and composer (d. 2013) |