Metal Goat

Today is a Metal Goat day. Influential characters born in a Metal Goat year:

Marcel Proust, writer of heavy tomes.

Charles Dickens, another writer of thick books.

Cult leader Jim Jones 

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

The Soviet Union also dissolved in a Metal Goat year (1991)

Fire Tiger

Today is Fire Tiger day. Lots of strong characters born in Fire Tiger years:

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro

Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat Sen

French composer Erik Satie




American poet Allen Ginsberg





American musicians Miles Davis & John Coltrane 

 
& Lady Gaga

French postmodern theorist Michel Foucault

Wood Ox

Today is a Wood Ox day. Solid characters born in Wood Ox years:

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Composer Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)

Civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925-1965)

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

Wood Rat

Today is a Wood Rat day. These people were born in Wood Rat years (lots of writers):

 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

George Sand (1804-1876)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)

Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush and Scarlett Johansson were also born in Wood Rat years.

Water Pig

Today is a day of the Water Pig. These people were born in a Water Pig year:

American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971)

English composer John Dowland (1563-1626)

American essayist / philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)