Born in 1940, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1940 is the Year of the Dragon and it is the Metal element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1940 are Dragons. The Chinese Dragon year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 8 February 1940 and 26 January 1941 are considered born in the Chinese year 1940 and are a Dragon sign. In addition, each Dragon 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. 1940 is also known as the Year of the Metal Dragon. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1940 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Dragon and 1940
Famous People Born in the Year of the Dragon and Chinese Year 1940. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Dragon 1940. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (d. 2014) |
| 1940 | Alberto Cortez, Argentinian-Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 2019) |
| 1941 | Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1989) |
| 1940 | Linda Gray, American model and actress |
| 1940 | Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (d. 2007) |
| 1940 | Brian Priestley, English pianist and composer |
| 1940 | Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach |
| 1940 | William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense |
| 1940 | Bjorn Johansen, Norwegian saxophonist (d. 2002) |
| 1940 | John Suchet, English journalist and game show host |
| 1940 | James Welch, American novelist and poet (d. 2003) |
| 1940 | Dick Thornett, Australian rugby player and water polo player (d. 2011) |
| 1940 | Jeffrey R. Holland, American academic and religious leader |
| 1940 | Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994) |
| 1940 | Glenys Page, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2012) |
| 1940 | Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015) |
| 1940 | Bobby Rogers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1940 | Sophie Lihau-Kanza, Congolese politician (d. 1999) |
| 1940 | Souleymane Cissé, Malian director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1940 | Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and convicted murderer (d. 1990) |
| 1940 | Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor |
| 1940 | Tasso Wild, German footballer |
| 1940 | Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach |
| 1940 | Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer (d. 1993) |
| 1940 | Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan |
| 1940 | Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (d. 1971) |
| 1940 | Ülo Õun, Estonian sculptor (d. 1988) |
| 1940 | Keith Savage, English rugby player |
| 1940 | Shyamal Kumar Sen, Indian jurist and politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal |
| 1940 | William B. Jordan, American art historian (d. 2018) |