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 |
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| 1917 | Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018) |
| 1917 | Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation (d. 2015) |
| 1918 | Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943) |
| 1917 | Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | John Berry, American-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Robert Manzon, French racing driver (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Isang Yun, South Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Jessica Mitford, English-American journalist and author (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | William T. Orr, American actor and producer (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Ronnie Burgess, Welsh international footballer and manager (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Valerie Hobson, English actress (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1993) |
| 1917 | Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962) |
| 1917 | Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (d. 2002) |
| 1918 | George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018) |
| 1917 | John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Humphry Osmond, English-American lieutenant and psychiatrist (d. 2004) |