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 | Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (d. 2015) |
| 1919 | Amalia Hernández, Mexican choreographer and dancer (d. 2000) |
| 1919 | Doug Young, American voice actor (d. 2018) |
| 1920 | Jimmy Forrest, American saxophonist (d. 1980) |
| 1919 | Edward Brooke, American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (d. 2015) |
| 1919 | Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and broadcaster (d. 1976) |
| 1919 | Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina (d. 1991) |
| 1919 | Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001) |
| 1919 | Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist and educator (d. 1995) |
| 1920 | Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (d. 2007) |
| 1919 | Edward Kenna, Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2009) |
| 1920 | Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1919 | Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (d. 2013) |
| 1919 | Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1978) |
| 1919 | Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) |
| 1919 | Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2021) |
| 1920 | DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 1919 | John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013) |
| 1919 | Jack McGrath, American race car driver (d. 1955) |
| 1920 | John Russell, American Olympic equestrian (d. 2020) |
| 1919 | Robin Williams, New Zealand mathematician, university administrator and public servant (d. 2013) |
| 1919 | Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001) |
| 1919 | Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (d. 2007) |
| 1919 | Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (d. 1999) |
| 1919 | Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (d. 2009) |
| 1919 | Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (d. 1989) |
| 1919 | István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer and educator (d. 2012) |
| 1919 | Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (d. 1978) |
| 1919 | Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (d. 1992) |