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 | Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (d. 2020) |
| 1917 | João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (d. 1990) |
| 1917 | Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (d. 2009) |
| 1917 | Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 1917 | Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian, and voice artist (d. 2012) |
| 1917 | Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Norman Luboff, American composer and conductor (d. 1987) |
| 1918 | Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, eighth Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988) |
| 1917 | Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) |
| 1917 | John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (d. 1996) |
| 1917 | Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Lou Harrison, American composer and critic (d. 2003) |
| 1917 | Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019) |
| 1918 | Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (d. 1997) |
| 1918 | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000) |
| 1917 | James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder (d. ?) |
| 1917 | Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1968) |
| 1918 | Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (d. 1995) |
| 1917 | Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (d. 2022) |
| 1917 | Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (d. 2005) |