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 | Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985) |
| 1921 | Lisa Ben, American singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2015) |
| 1921 | Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017) |
| 1921 | Adolph Herseth, American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013) |
| 1921 | Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960) |
| 1921 | Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013) |
| 1921 | William Roth, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003) |
| 1921 | Toni Stone, American baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 1921 | Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (d. 1998) |
| 1921 | Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (d. 1997) |
| 1921 | Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and coach (d. 2006) |
| 1921 | D. V. Paluskar, Indian Hindustani classical musician (d. 1955) |
| 1921 | Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 1921 | Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001) |
| 1921 | Alan Hale Jr., American actor and restaurateur (d. 1990) |
| 1921 | John van Kesteren, Dutch-American tenor and actor (d. 2008) |
| 1921 | Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006) |
| 1921 | Guy Beaulne, Canadian actor and director (d. 2001) |
| 1921 | Arthur Johnson, Canadian canoeist (d. 2003) |
| 1921 | Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (d. 1985) |
| 1921 | Byron Farwell, American historian and author (d. 1999) |
| 1921 | Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013) |
| 1921 | Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian tennis player (d. 2017) |
| 1921 | Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2011) |
| 1921 | Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (d. 1992) |
| 1921 | Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991) |
| 1921 | Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (d. 2009) |
| 1921 | Lowell Fulson, African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999) |
| 1921 | Charles Bronson, American soldier and actor (d. 2003) |
| 1921 | Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014) |