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 | Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Les Johnson, Australian politician (d. 2015) |
| 1924 | Samuel Bowers, American activist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006) |
| 1924 | Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 1924 | Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (d. 1976) |
| 1924 | Fuat Sezgin, Turkish historian and academic (d. 2018) |
| 1924 | Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987) |
| 1924 | Doc Blanchard, American football player and colonel (d. 2009) |
| 1924 | Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 28th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010) |
| 1924 | Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (d. 2012) |
| 1924 | Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) |
| 1924 | Neville Marriner, English violinist and conductor (d. 2016) |
| 1924 | Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (d. 1976) |
| 1924 | Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist (d. 1998) |
| 1924 | Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and historian (d. 2006) |
| 1924 | Pat Hingle, American actor and producer (d. 2009) |
| 1924 | Ian Black, Scottish international footballer and lawn bowls player (d. 2012) |
| 1925 | Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (d. 1970) |
| 1924 | Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (d. 2010) |
| 1924 | Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1994) |
| 1924 | John Love, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | Jack T. Chick, American author, illustrator, and publisher (d. 2016) |
| 1924 | Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997) |
| 1924 | Bud Powell, American pianist and composer (d. 1966) |
| 1924 | George Zuverink, American baseball player (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990) |
| 1924 | Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (d. 1991) |
| 1924 | Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (d. 2012) |
| 1924 | Hugh Cortazzi, English soldier, historian, and diplomat, British Ambassador to Japan (d. 2018) |