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 |
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| 1917 | Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1993) |
| 1917 | Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962) |
| 1917 | Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003) |
| 1917 | Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002) |
| 1918 | Helen Stephens, American runner, baseball player, and manager (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (d. 1970) |
| 1917 | Walter Lord, American historian and author (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (d. 2018) |
| 1917 | Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 1917 | Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983) |
| 1917 | David Westheimer, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Nesuhi Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 1978) |