Born in 1923, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1923 is the Year of the Pig and it is the Water element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1923 are Pigs. The Chinese Pig year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 16 February 1923 and 4 February 1924 are considered born in the Chinese year 1923 and are a Pig sign. In addition, each Pig 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. 1923 is also known as the Year of the Water Pig. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1923 is Yin (-) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Pig and 1923
Famous People Born in the Year of the Pig and Chinese Year 1923. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Pig 1923. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
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| 1923 | Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (d. 2012) |
| 1923 | Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (d. 2006) |
| 1923 | Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (d. 1995) |
| 1923 | Jerzy Nowak, Polish actor and educator (d. 2013) |
| 1923 | Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 1923 | Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011) |
| 1923 | Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 1923 | Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor (d. 2003) |
| 1923 | Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) |
| 1923 | Louise Brough, American tennis player (d. 2014) |
| 1923 | Bernice Rubens, Welsh author (d. 2004) |
| 1923 | Don Adams, American actor and director (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and author (d. 2000) |
| 1923 | John Toner, American football player and coach (d. 2014) |
| 1923 | Betsy Drake, American actress (d. 2015) |
| 1923 | Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010) |
| 1923 | Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian medievalist and palaeographer (d. 1999) |
| 1923 | Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014) |
| 1923 | Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011) |
| 1923 | Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012) |
| 1923 | William C. Schneider, American aerospace engineer (d. 1999) |
| 1923 | Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (d. 2008) |
| 1923 | Alex Hannum, American basketball player and coach (d. 2002) |
| 1923 | Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018) |
| 1923 | Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (d. 2009) |
| 1923 | Dolph Briscoe, American lieutenant and politician, 41st Governor of Texas (d. 2010) |
| 1923 | François Cavanna, French author and editor (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian director and screenwriter (d. 1990) |