According to Chinese Astrology, 1900 is the Year of the Rat and it is the Metal element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1900 are Rats. The Chinese Rat year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 31 January 1900 and 18 February 1901 are considered born in the Chinese year 1900 and are a Rat sign. In addition, each Rat 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. 1900 is also known as the Year of the Metal Rat. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1900 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Rat?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Alice Berry, Australian activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Leela Roy Nag, Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972) |
| 1900 | Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1957) |
| 1901 | Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955) |
| 1900 | Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, murdered in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017) |
| 1900 | Hawayo Takata, Japanese-American teacher and master practitioner of Reiki (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter and educator (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician and general, 1st President of Sudan (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2004) |