Born in 1953, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?

According to Chinese Astrology, 1953 is the Year of the Snake and it is the Water element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1953 are Snakes. The Chinese Snake year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 14 February 1953 and 2 February 1954 are considered born in the Chinese year 1953 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. 1953 is also known as the Year of the Water Snake. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1953 is Yin (-) according to the Chinese calendar.

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Famous people from the Year of the Snake and 1953

Famous People Born in the Year of the Snake and Chinese Year 1953. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Snake 1953. Some of them are the following;
Date Name
1953 Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer and educator
1953 Ivan Toms, South African physician and activist (d. 2008)
1954 Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director
1954 Richard Blackford, English composer
1953 Eileen Cooper, English painter and academic
1953 Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
1953 Robert Phillips, American guitarist
1953 Paul Samson, English guitarist and producer (d. 2002)
1953 Tom Underwood, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1953 Rita Rudner, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
1953 Robert Doyle, Australian educator and politician, 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
1953 James Horner, American composer and conductor (d. 2015)
1953 Janis F. Kearney, American author, lecturer and publisher
1953 Suresh Prabhu, Indian accountant and politician, Indian Minister of Railways
1953 Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
1953 Jeff Fatt, Australian keyboard player and actor
1953 Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress
1953 M. K. Stalin, Indian Tamil politician, 8th and incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
1953 Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (d. 2003)
1953 Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
1953 William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 Brian McKechnie, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player
1953 Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
1953 Leon Spinks, American boxer (d. 2021)
1953 Renée Geyer, Australian singer-songwriter
1953 Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor and screenwriter
1953 Henning Schmitz, German drummer
1953 Elaine Chao, Taiwanese-American banker and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Labor
1953 Norman Finkelstein, American author, academic, and activist
1953 Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager