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 | Isang Yun, South Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976) |
| 1917 | Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and golfer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (d. 1971) |
| 1917 | Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier (d. 1944) |
| 1917 | Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (d. 1980) |
| 1917 | David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Chung Il-kwon, Korean politician, diplomat, and soldier (d.1994) |
| 1917 | Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986) |
| 1918 | João Figueiredo, Brazilian general and politician, 30th President of Brazil (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (d. 1982) |
| 1917 | Pamela Brown, English actress (d. 1975) |
| 1917 | George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (d. 2016) |
| 1917 | Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1986) |
| 1917 | A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright (d. 2020) |
| 1917 | Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993) |