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 | Tadd Dameron, American pianist and composer (d. 1965) |
| 1917 | Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and theologian (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Gene Rayburn, American game show host and actor (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1984) |
| 1917 | Nick Joaquin, Filipino writer, journalist and historian (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and activist (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018) |
| 1917 | Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967) |
| 1917 | David Hare, American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Laure Pillay, Mauritian lawyer and jurist (d. 2017) |
| 1917 | Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976) |
| 1917 | Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019) |
| 1918 | Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author and painter (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Oliver Crawford, American screenwriter and author (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1993) |
| 1917 | Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002) |
| 1918 | Les Bennett, English footballer and manager (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 1917 | Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000) |