Born in 1917, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?

According to Chinese Astrology, 1917 is the Year of the Snake and it is the Fire element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1917 are Snakes. The Chinese Snake year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 23 January 1917 and 10 February 1918 are considered born in the Chinese year 1917 and are a Snake sign. In addition, each Snake 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. 1917 is also known as the Year of the Fire Snake. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1917 is Yin (-) according to the Chinese calendar.

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Famous people from the Year of the Snake and 1917

Famous People Born in the Year of the Snake and Chinese Year 1917. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Snake 1917. Some of them are the following;
Date Name
1917 Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University (d. 2002)
1917 Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992)
1917 Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1917 Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1995)
1918 Jimmy Hagan, English footballer (d. 1998)
1917 Jack Karnehm, English snooker player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
1917 Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
1918 Les Bennett, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
1917 Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1917 Robert Ward, American soldier, composer, and educator (d. 2013)
1917 Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
1917 Leonard Cheshire, English captain, pilot, and humanitarian (d. 1992)
1917 Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 1978)
1917 Vasantdada Patil, Indian farmer and politician, 9th Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1989)
1917 Pierre Gaspard-Huit, French director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1917 Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot (d. 2018)
1917 Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1993)
1917 Donald Blakeslee, American colonel and pilot (d. 2008)
1917 Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (d. 2019)
1917 Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007)
1917 Tony Lupien, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
1917 Christian de Duve, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1917 Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (d. 2009)
1917 Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (d. 2005)
1917 Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (d. 2005)
1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (d. 1995)
1917 John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (d. 2012)
1917 Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician (d. 2008)
1917 William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1917 Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer (d. 2005)