Happy Chinese New Year! Out with the horse and in with the sheep (or goat, depending on who you talk to). Celebrations started yesterday, and will continue until Tuesday. The New Year itself falls on February 19 this year, and since China’s eastern seaboard is eight hours ahead of the UK it’s already begun.
There are a lot of complicated and ancient customs involved in Chinese New Year. It’s an as big (if not bigger) deal as Christmas in the UK, and the movement of people from China’s cities to their rural homes is considered the biggest recurring human migration on Earth.
But for most people in the UK we associate it with colourful parades, fireworks and the 12 animals of the Chinese calendar. So first things first, are you a sheep?
If the answer is yes, here’s a list of celebrities that were also born in one of those sheep years.
1. Ed Sheeran
2. Pixie Lott
3. Eden Hazard
4. James Rodríguez
5 and 6. Jedward
7. Chris Pratt
8. Rosamund Pike
9. Heath Ledger
10. Kate Hudson
11. Kourtney Kardashian
12. P!nk
13. Adam Levine
14. Kelis
15. Jamie Foxx
16. Vin Diesel
17. Matt Le Blanc
18. Nicole Kidman
19. Will Ferrell
20. Noel Gallagher
21. Bill Gates
22. Kris Jenner
23. Steve Jobs
24. Whoopi Goldberg
25. Robert De Niro
26. Mick Jagger
27. Joan Rivers
28. Joan Collins
29. Michael Caine
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