According to Chinese Astrology, 1919 is the Year of the Goat and it is the Earth element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1919 are Goats. The Chinese Goat year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 1 February 1919 and 19 February 1920 are considered born in the Chinese year 1919 and are a Goat sign. In addition, each Goat 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. 1919 is also known as the Year of the Earth Goat. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1919 is Yin (-) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Goat?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 1919 | Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1919 | Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist and soldier (d. 1960) |
| 1919 | Leonor Oyarzún, Chilean socialite, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (d. 2022). |
| 1919 | Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (d. 2005) |
| 1919 | Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, English historian and politician (d. 2020) |
| 1919 | Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (d. 2021) |
| 1919 | Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1920 | Anna Mae Hays, American general (d. 2018) |
| 1919 | Gottfried Dienst, Swiss footballer and referee (d. 1998) |
| 1919 | Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987) |
| 1919 | James Lovelock, English biologist and chemist (d. 2022) |
| 1919 | Licio Gelli, Italian financer (d. 2015) |
| 1919 | Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976) |
| 1919 | Alberto Breccia, Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 1993) |
| 1920 | Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1919 | Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler (d. 2004) |
| 1919 | Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2006) |
| 1920 | John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004) |
| 1919 | Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2005) |
| 1919 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (d. 2021)[164][165] |
| 1920 | Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1919 | Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (d. 1981) |
| 1920 | Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator (d. 2003) |
| 1919 | Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1988) |
| 1919 | John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (d. 2014) |
| 1919 | James S. Ackerman, American historian and academic (d. 2016) |
| 1919 | William F. Quinn, American lawyer (d. 2006) |
| 1919 | George Shearing, English jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 2011) |
| 1919 | William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013) |