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)