Born in 1926, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1926 is the Year of the Tiger and it is the Fire element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1926 are Tigers. The Chinese Tiger year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 13 February 1926 and 1 February 1927 are considered born in the Chinese year 1926 and are a Tiger sign. In addition, each Tiger 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. 1926 is also known as the Year of the Fire Tiger. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1926 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Tiger and 1926
Famous People Born in the Year of the Tiger and Chinese Year 1926. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Tiger 1926. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
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| 1926 | Jerome Courtland, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012) |
| 1926 | Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018) |
| 1926 | Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011) |
| 1927 | Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013) |
| 1926 | Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 2011) |
| 1926 | Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (d. 1962) |
| 1926 | Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright (d. 2014) |
| 1926 | James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020) |
| 1926 | Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (d. 1992) |
| 1926 | Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1926 | Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 1926 | Prince Claus of the Netherlands (d. 2002) |
| 1926 | Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (d. 2016) |
| 1926 | Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist (d. 2017) |
| 1926 | Bob Flanigan, American pop singer (d. 2011) |
| 1926 | Gene Colan, American illustrator (d. 2011) |
| 1926 | Roger McKee, American baseball player (d. 2014) |
| 1926 | Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (d. 1990) |
| 1926 | Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (d. 2015) |
| 1926 | George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022) |
| 1926 | Andrew Brimmer, American economist and academic (d. 2012) |
| 1926 | Stephen Lewis, English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2015) |
| 1926 | Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 1926 | Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010) |
| 1926 | Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997) |
| 1926 | Betye Saar, American artist |
| 1926 | Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (d. 2003) |
| 1926 | Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013) |
| 1926 | Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018) |
| 1926 | James Best, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015) |