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 | John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001) |
| 1917 | Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (d. 1967) |
| 1917 | Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Carol Kendall, American historian and author (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983) |
| 1917 | Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998) |
| 1917 | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2010) |
| 1918 | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993) |
| 1917 | Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (d. 1996) |
| 1918 | Harry Corbett, English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Jacob Lawrence, American painter and educator (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | Al Cervi, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009) |
| 1918 | Arthur Chung, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988) |
| 1917 | Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (d. 2004) |
| 1917 | Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | John Anderson, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Fritz Honegger, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999) |