Born in 1924, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?

According to Chinese Astrology, 1924 is the Year of the Rat and it is the Wood element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1924 are Rats. The Chinese Rat year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 5 February 1924 and 24 January 1925 are considered born in the Chinese year 1924 and are a Rat sign. In addition, each Rat 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. 1924 is also known as the Year of the Wood Rat. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1924 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.

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Famous people from the Year of the Rat and 1924

Famous People Born in the Year of the Rat and Chinese Year 1924. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Rat 1924. Some of them are the following;
Date Name
1924 Curtis Turner, American race car driver (d. 1970)
1924 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
1924 Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
1924 Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014)
1924 Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (d. 2014)
1924 Barbara Bachmann, American microbiologist (d. 1999)
1924 Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006)
1924 Karunanidhi, Indian screenwriter and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)
1924 Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (d. 2009)
1924 Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1924 Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
1924 Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)
1924 Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
1924 William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (d. 2006)
1924 Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist (d. 1998)
1924 Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (d. 2015)
1924 Delia Fiallo, Cuban author and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1924 Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (d. 2019)
1924 Ian Black, Scottish international footballer and lawn bowls player (d. 2012)
1924 Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
1924 Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (d. 2009)
1924 Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1924 Voula Zouboulaki, Egyptian-Greek actress (d. 2015)
1924 Fuat Sezgin, Turkish historian and academic (d. 2018)
1924 Peter Safar, Austrian physician and academic (d. 2003)
1924 Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1971)
1924 Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 Bill Dana, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1924 Earl Palmer, American Hall of Fame drummer (d. 2008)
1924 Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)