Born in 1924, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1924 is the Year of the Rat and it is the Wood element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1924 are Rats. The Chinese Rat year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 5 February 1924 and 24 January 1925 are considered born in the Chinese year 1924 and are a Rat sign. In addition, each Rat 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. 1924 is also known as the Year of the Wood Rat. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1924 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Rat and 1924
Famous People Born in the Year of the Rat and Chinese Year 1924. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Rat 1924. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (d. 2004) |
| 1925 | Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor |
| 1924 | Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980) |
| 1924 | Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963) |
| 1924 | Bobby Ávila, Mexican baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 1924 | Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (d. before 2005) |
| 1924 | Clement Freud, German-English radio host, academic, and politician (d. 2009) |
| 1924 | Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987) |
| 1924 | Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2013) |
| 1925 | Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2015) |
| 1924 | Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (d. 2017) |
| 1924 | William J. Castagna, American lawyer and judge (d. 2020) |
| 1924 | Eileen Barton, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 1924 | Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011) |
| 1924 | Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout (d. 2019) |
| 1924 | Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021) |
| 1924 | Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator (d. 1993) |
| 1924 | Frederic Morton, Austrian-American banker, journalist, and author (d. 2015) |
| 1925 | Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (d. 1970) |
| 1924 | Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Georges Prêtre, French conductor (d. 2017) |
| 1924 | John Harvey-Jones, English academic and businessman (d. 2008) |
| 1924 | Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Sara Northrup Hollister, American occultist (d. 1997) |
| 1924 | Faith Domergue, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 1925 | Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (d. 1994) |
| 1924 | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014) |
| 1924 | Vincent Canby, American historian and critic (d. 2000) |