Born in 1916, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1916 is the Year of the Dragon and it is the Fire element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1916 are Dragons. The Chinese Dragon year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 3 February 1916 and 22 January 1917 are considered born in the Chinese year 1916 and are a Dragon sign. In addition, each Dragon 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. 1916 is also known as the Year of the Fire Dragon. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1916 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Dragon and 1916
Famous People Born in the Year of the Dragon and Chinese Year 1916. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Dragon 1916. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1916 | Terry Gilkyson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999) |
| 1916 | Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2002) |
| 1916 | Albert Murray, American author and critic (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007) |
| 1916 | Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013) |
| 1916 | Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1916 | Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress (d. 1990) |
| 1916 | Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002) |
| 1916 | Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (d. 1994) |
| 1916 | Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture (d. 2003) |
| 1916 | Pearl Hackney, English actress (d. 2009) |
| 1916 | Antoni Bazaniak, Polish sprint canoeist (d. 1979) |
| 1916 | Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (d. 1984) |
| 1916 | Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic (d. 2013) |
| 1916 | Edward Heath, English colonel and politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1970-74 (d. 2005) |
| 1916 | Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2003) |
| 1916 | Mary Stewart, British author and poet (d. 2014) |
| 1916 | Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American journalist and author (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American journalist and publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux (d. 2004) |
| 1916 | Johnny Claes, English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (d. 1956) |
| 1916 | Skippy Williams, American saxophonist and arranger (d. 1994) |
| 1916 | Russell Garcia, American-New Zealander composer and conductor (d. 2011) |
| 1916 | Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) |
| 1916 | Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (d. 2004) |
| 1916 | Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 1916 | Tommy Bolt, American golfer (d. 2008) |
| 1916 | Luther Davis, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 1916 | Hans Eysenck, German-English psychologist and theorist (d. 1997) |
| 1916 | Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (d. 2000) |
| 1916 | Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer (d. 2001) |