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 | Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and golfer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and bomber pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1917 | Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor (d. 1965) |
| 1917 | Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) |
| 1917 | Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Dorothy DeLay, American violinist and educator (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975) |
| 1917 | Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 1917 | Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Allen Ludden, American television personality and game show host (d. 1981) |
| 1917 | Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer (d. 1961) |
| 1917 | James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) |
| 1917 | Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (d. 1970) |
| 1917 | Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016) |
| 1917 | Henry Ford II, American businessman (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Fritz Honegger, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Sir Keith Shann, Australian diplomat (d. 1988) |
| 1917 | Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (d. 1989) |