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 | Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Bea Wain, American singer (d. 2017) |
| 1917 | Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (d. 2016) |
| 1917 | Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Ken Downing, English racing driver (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Lucy Jarvis, American television producer (d. 2020) |
| 1918 | Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Willa Kim, American costume designer (d. 2016) |
| 1918 | Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943) |
| 1917 | Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | David Hare, American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Rochus Misch, German SS officer (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and journalist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Marvin Miller, American baseball executive (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Christian de Duve, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988) |
| 1917 | Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) |
| 1918 | John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986) |
| 1917 | João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (d. 1990) |
| 1917 | Gordon Steege, Australian soldier and pilot (d. 2013) |
| 1918 | Gustave Gingras, Canadian-English physician and educator (d. 1996) |
| 1918 | Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2002) |