Born in 1908, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1908 is the Year of the Monkey and it is the Earth element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1908 are Monkeys. The Chinese Monkey year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 2 February 1908 and 21 January 1909 are considered born in the Chinese year 1908 and are a Monkey sign. In addition, each Monkey 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. 1908 is also known as the Year of the Earth Monkey. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1908 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Monkey and 1908
Famous People Born in the Year of the Monkey and Chinese Year 1908. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Monkey 1908. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1908 | Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1994) |
| 1908 | Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author (d. 2005) |
| 1908 | Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist (d. 1986) |
| 1908 | Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989) |
| 1908 | Ed Heinemann, American designer of military aircraft (d. 1991) |
| 1908 | David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991) |
| 1908 | Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) |
| 1908 | Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994) |
| 1908 | Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener (d. 1994) |
| 1908 | Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (d. 1980) |
| 1908 | Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970) |
| 1908 | Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967) |
| 1908 | Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999) |
| 1908 | Eugen Weidmann, German criminal (d. 1939) |
| 1908 | Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 1908 | Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988) |
| 1908 | Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) |
| 1908 | Paul Brown, American football player and coach (d. 1991) |
| 1908 | Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970) |
| 1908 | Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 1908 | Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek-Cypriot politician (d. 1988) |
| 1908 | Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (d. 1996) |
| 1909 | Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer (d. 1939) |
| 1908 | Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan author and poet (d. 1983) |
| 1908 | Franz Stangl, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 1971) |
| 1908 | Kurt Neumann, German director (d. 1958) |
| 1908 | Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer (d. 2017) |
| 1908 | Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author (d. 1950) |
| 1908 | Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) |
| 1908 | Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1988) |