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 | Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Cleveland Amory, American author and critic (d. 1997) |
| 1917 | Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and director (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Robert Manzon, French racing driver (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher and author (d. 1991) |
| 1917 | Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor (d. 1965) |
| 1917 | Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) |
| 1918 | Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (d. 1970) |
| 1917 | George Osmond, American talent manager (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (d. 2020) |
| 1917 | Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player |
| 1917 | Zenna Henderson, American author (d.1983) |
| 1917 | Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (d. 2003) |
| 1918 | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | George Mann, English cricketer (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1995) |