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 | Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 1924 | George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) |
| 1924 | Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1924 | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Daniel arap Moi, Kenyan educator and politician, 2nd President of Kenya (d. 2020) |
| 1924 | Marc Breaux, American actor, director, and choreographer (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 28th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010) |
| 1924 | Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | Earl Palmer, American Hall of Fame drummer (d. 2008) |
| 1924 | Bill Dana, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017) |
| 1924 | Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | José Donoso, Chilean author (d. 1996) |
| 1924 | Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012) |
| 1924 | Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (d. 1994) |
| 1924 | Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988) |
| 1924 | James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) |
| 1924 | Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006) |
| 1924 | Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst (d. 1980) |
| 1924 | Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (d. 1994) |
| 1925 | Vanita Smythe, American singer and actress (d. 1994) |
| 1924 | Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 2007) |
| 1924 | Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish soldier, engineer, and judge (d. 2000) |
| 1924 | Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012) |
| 1924 | Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005) |
| 1924 | Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997) |
| 1924 | Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004) |
| 1925 | Maria Tallchief, American ballerina and actress (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Samuel Ruiz, Mexican bishop (d. 2011) |