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 |
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| 1925 | Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager (d. 2007) |
| 1924 | Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic (d. 2020) |
| 1924 | Joyce Randolph, American actress |
| 1925 | James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015) |
| 1924 | Bess Myerson, American model, actress, game show panelist, and politician, Miss America 1945 (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Brendan Byrne, American lieutenant, judge, and politician, 47th Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018) |
| 1924 | Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 1925 | Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (d. 1972) |
| 1924 | Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (d. 2019) |
| 1924 | Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Georges Rivière, French actor |
| 1924 | Leonid Kogan, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1982) |
| 1924 | Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout (d. 2019) |
| 1924 | Wiel Coerver, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2011) |
| 1924 | Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian-English author and screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 1924 | John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (d. 2010) |
| 1924 | Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019) |
| 1924 | Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021) |
| 1924 | Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1988) |
| 1924 | Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1996) |
| 1924 | Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980) |
| 1924 | Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (d. 2021) |
| 1924 | Vincent Canby, American historian and critic (d. 2000) |
| 1924 | Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) |
| 1924 | Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997) |
| 1924 | Frank Broyles, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2017) |
| 1924 | Leo Buscaglia, American author and academic (d. 1998) |
| 1924 | Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014) |