According to Chinese Astrology, 1918 is the Year of the Horse and it is the Earth element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1918 are Horses. The Chinese Horse year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 11 February 1918 and 31 January 1919 are considered born in the Chinese year 1918 and are a Horse sign. In addition, each Horse 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. 1918 is also known as the Year of the Earth Horse. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1918 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Horse?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (d. 1990) |
| 1918 | Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976) |
| 1918 | Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985) |
| 1918 | Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) |
| 1918 | Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor (d. 1988) |
| 1918 | Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (d. 1993) |
| 1918 | Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Fay McKenzie, American actress (d. 2019) |
| 1918 | Mary Anderson, American actress (d. 2014) |
| 1918 | Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996) |
| 1918 | Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1961) |
| 1919 | Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English soldier and politician, Leader of the House of Lords (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (d. 1995) |
| 1918 | Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (d. 1980) |
| 1918 | Brian James, Australian actor (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Sten Rudholm, Swedish lawyer and jurist (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (d. 1995) |
| 1918 | Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (d. 1997) |
| 1918 | Astrid Varnay, Swedish-American soprano and actress (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Kermit Beahan, American colonel (d. 1989) |
| 1918 | John Celardo, American captain and illustrator (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990) |
| 1918 | Robert Osterloh, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 1918 | Alfred D. Chandler Jr., American historian and academic (d. 2007) |