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) |