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 | Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Paul Rogers, English actor (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Al Cervi, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d. 1979) |
| 1917 | Elyse Knox, American actress and fashion designer (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | June Foray, American actress and voice artist (d. 2017) |
| 1917 | Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Buddy Jeannette, American basketball player and coach (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1967) |
| 1917 | Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Helena Rasiowa, Austrian-Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1994) |
| 1918 | Florence Rush, American social worker and theorist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Christian de Duve, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 1917 | Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Terry Sanford, 65th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1984) |
| 1917 | John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986) |
| 1917 | Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Jânio Quadros, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (d. 2020) |