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.
When is the Chinese Year of the Snake?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Jimmy Hagan, English footballer (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (d. 2016) |
| 1917 | Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1967) |
| 1917 | Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and director (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Ib Melchior, Danish-American author and screenwriter (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Al Cervi, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Tony Lupien, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Francis Parker Yockey, American lawyer and philosopher (d. 1960) |
| 1917 | Wah Chang, Chinese-American artist and designer (d. 2003) |
| 1917 | George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (d. 2016) |
| 1917 | John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Carol Kendall, American historian and author (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general (d. 1994) |
| 1918 | Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 1918 | John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988) |
| 1917 | Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (d. 2008) |