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 Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer (d. 1989)
1917 Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1993)
1917 Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (d. 1998)
1917 Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2001)
1917 Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general (d. 1994)
1917 Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962)
1917 Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011)
1918 Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
1917 Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002)
1918 Helen Stephens, American runner, baseball player, and manager (d. 1994)
1917 Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011)
1917 Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1917 Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007)
1917 Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1917 John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1917 Walter Lord, American historian and author (d. 2002)
1917 Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
1917 Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002)
1917 Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002)
1917 Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
1917 Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004)
1917 Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (d. 2007)
1917 Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (d. 2001)
1917 Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
1917 Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (d. 2012)
1917 Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983)
1917 David Westheimer, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2005)
1917 Nesuhi Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer (d. 1989)
1917 Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 1978)