Born in 1944, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
According to Chinese Astrology, 1944 is the Year of the Monkey and it is the Wood element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1944 are Monkeys. The Chinese Monkey year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 25 January 1944 and 12 February 1945 are considered born in the Chinese year 1944 and are a Monkey sign. In addition, each Monkey 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. 1944 is also known as the Year of the Wood Monkey. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1944 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
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Famous people from the Year of the Monkey and 1944
Famous People Born in the Year of the Monkey and Chinese Year 1944. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Monkey 1944. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1944 | Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director |
| 1944 | Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer |
| 1944 | Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986) |
| 1944 | Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2005) |
| 1944 | Richard Belzer, American actor |
| 1944 | Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic |
| 1944 | Catherine Schell, Hungarian-English actress |
| 1944 | Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer |
| 1945 | Serge Joyal, Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Secretary of State for Canada |
| 1944 | Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and academic, designed the Seattle Central Library |
| 1945 | David D. Friedman, American economist, physicist, and scholar |
| 1944 | Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1966) |
| 1944 | Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic |
| 1944 | Gennady Zyuganov, Russian politician |
| 1944 | Bernard Hill, English actor |
| 1945 | Alojz Uran, Slovenian archbishop (d. 2020) |
| 1944 | Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician |
| 1944 | Udo Kier, German-American actor and director |
| 1944 | Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1944 | Candy Darling, American model and actress (d. 1974) |
| 1944 | David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022) |
| 1944 | Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971) |
| 1944 | Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor, director, and producer |
| 1944 | Jon Bing, Norwegian author, scholar, and academic (d. 2014) |
| 1944 | Judith Rees, English geographer and academic |
| 1945 | Jacky Ickx, Belgian racing driver |
| 1944 | Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter and actress |
| 1944 | Rocky Johnson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2020) |
| 1944 | Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager |
| 1944 | Linda Kaye Henning, American actress |