Born in 1917, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?

1. Chinese Zodiac Signs
2. 1917 Chinese Zodiac

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	Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004)
1917	Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006)
1917	Leonard Cheshire, English captain, pilot, and humanitarian (d. 1992)
1917	Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
1917	Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
1917	Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
1917	Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1993)
1917	Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1917	Nick Joaquin, Filipino writer, journalist and historian (d. 2004)
1917	Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004)
1917	Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (d. 1995)
1917	Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (d. 2013)
1917	Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1917	Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998)
1917	Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1917	Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (d. 1992)
1917	Dorothy DeLay, American violinist and educator (d. 2002)
1917	Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
1917	Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1917	Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
1917	Roque Cordero, Panamanian composer and educator (d. 2008)
1917	June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)
1917	T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan lawyer and academic (d. 2004)
1918	Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1917	Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat (d. 2010)
1917	David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (d. 2014)
1917	Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (d. 2012)
1917	Clarence E. Miller, American engineer and politician (d. 2011)
1917	Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983)
1917	Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)