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 Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
1917 Cleveland Amory, American author and critic (d. 1997)
1917 Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and director (d. 2006)
1917 Robert Manzon, French racing driver (d. 2015)
1918 Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher and author (d. 1991)
1917 Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012)
1918 John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)
1917 Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor (d. 1965)
1917 Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1917 Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (d. 1994)
1917 Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1917 George Osmond, American talent manager (d. 2007)
1917 Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002)
1917 Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006)
1917 Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011)
1917 David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992)
1917 Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1917 Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (d. 2020)
1917 Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player
1917 Zenna Henderson, American author (d.1983)
1917 Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (d. 2012)
1917 Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1917 Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (d. 2003)
1918 Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1917 Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
1917 Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019)
1917 George Mann, English cricketer (d. 2001)
1917 Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
1917 Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1995)