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 John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
1917 Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
1917 Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
1917 David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (d. 1967)
1917 Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
1917 Carol Kendall, American historian and author (d. 2012)
1917 Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
1917 Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983)
1917 Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998)
1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (d. 2007)
1917 Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (d. 2007)
1917 Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)
1917 Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (d. 2010)
1917 Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2010)
1918 Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1917 Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1917 Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (d. 1996)
1918 Harry Corbett, English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1917 June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)
1917 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1917 Jacob Lawrence, American painter and educator (d. 2000)
1917 Al Cervi, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
1918 Arthur Chung, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008)
1917 Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019)
1917 Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988)
1917 Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (d. 2004)
1917 Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
1917 John Anderson, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (d. 2014)
1917 Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2008)
1917 Fritz Honegger, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999)