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 |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018) |
| 1918 | Rusty Dedrick, American swing and bebop jazz trumpeter (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (d. 2004) |
| 1919 | J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (d. 2010) |
| 1918 | Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990) |
| 1918 | Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (d. 2002) |
| 1918 | George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English soldier and politician, Leader of the House of Lords (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (d. 2008) |
| 1918 | Pita Amor, Mexican poet and author (d. 2000) |
| 1918 | Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001) |
| 1918 | André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958) |
| 1918 | E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Alfred D. Chandler Jr., American historian and academic (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Kermit Beahan, American colonel (d. 1989) |
| 1918 | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996) |
| 1918 | Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer and academic (d. 2001) |
| 1918 | Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (d. 2005) |
| 1918 | Jimmy Rowles, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996) |
| 1918 | Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | James Tobin, American economist and academic (d. 2002) |
| 1919 | Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949) |
| 1918 | Wilf Mannion, English footballer and manager (d. 2000) |
| 1918 | Indumati Bhattacharya, Indian politician (d. 1990) |