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 | Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Gordon Steege, Australian soldier and pilot (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 1918 | Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) |
| 1917 | Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (d. 1971) |
| 1917 | Norman Luboff, American composer and conductor (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and horse breeder (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984) |
| 1917 | Vera Lynn, English singer, songwriter and actress (d. 2020) |
| 1917 | Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Tadd Dameron, American pianist and composer (d. 1965) |
| 1917 | Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Edward T. Cone, American pianist and composer (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | June Foray, American actress and voice artist (d. 2017) |
| 1918 | Jimmy Hagan, English footballer (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |