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 | Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994) |
| 1917 | Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Norman Luboff, American composer and conductor (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Zenna Henderson, American author (d.1983) |
| 1917 | Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2005) |
| 1917 | Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (d. 1992) |
| 1917 | Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019) |
| 1917 | Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985) |
| 1917 | Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer (d. 2008) |
| 1917 | Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016) |
| 1918 | Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943) |
| 1917 | Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Clarence E. Miller, American engineer and politician (d. 2011) |
| 1917 | Pío Leyva, Cuban singer-songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Henry Ford II, American businessman (d. 1987) |
| 1917 | Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (d. 2010) |
| 1917 | Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002) |
| 1917 | Nesuhi Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014) |
| 1917 | Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969) |
| 1917 | Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007) |