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 | Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese-French philosopher and theorist (d. 1993) |
| 1917 | Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (d. 2005) |
| 1918 | Arthur Chung, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Spencer Walklate, Australian rugby league player and soldier (d. 1945) |
| 1917 | Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (d. 1971) |
| 1917 | Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 1917 | Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot (d. 2018) |
| 1917 | Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986) |
| 1917 | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962) |
| 1917 | June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 1917 | Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) |
| 1917 | Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop (d. 2017) |
| 1917 | Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) |
| 1917 | Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Humphry Osmond, English-American lieutenant and psychiatrist (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Laure Pillay, Mauritian lawyer and jurist (d. 2017) |
| 1917 | Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (d. 1967) |