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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| 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) |