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 | Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (d. 1980) |
| 1917 | Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (d. 1995) |
| 1918 | Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003) |
| 1917 | Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 1917 | Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer (d. 1961) |
| 1917 | Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and activist (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | James Kee, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969) |
| 1917 | Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Henry Ford II, American businessman (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Robert Merrill, American actor and singer (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (d. 1967) |
| 1917 | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (d. 2016) |
| 1917 | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962) |
| 1917 | Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1983) |
| 1917 | Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Marvin Miller, American baseball executive (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (d. 1982) |
| 1917 | Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Tom Bradley, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian, and voice artist (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | James C. Murray, American lawyer and politician (d. 1999) |
| 1917 | Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |