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.
When is the Chinese Year of the Snake?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) |
| 1917 | Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Roque Cordero, Panamanian composer and educator (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and activist (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Tony Lupien, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004) |
| 1918 | Lloyd Noel Ferguson, American chemist (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and golfer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Isang Yun, South Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995) |
| 1918 | Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Ants "the Terrible" Kaljurand, Estonian anti-communist, freedom fighter and forest brother (d. 1951) |
| 1917 | Herbert Lom, Czech-born English actor (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | William Seawell, American general (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and bomber pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1917 | Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier (d. 1944) |
| 1917 | Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Phil Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Sydney Newman, Canadian screenwriter and producer, co-created Doctor Who (d. 1997) |
| 1917 | José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969) |
| 1917 | Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1995) |