Born in 1900, What is my Chinese Zodiac Sign and Element?
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?
Famous people from the Year of the Rat and 1900
Famous People Born in the Year of the Rat and Chinese Year 1900. Many celebrities were born in the Year of the Rat 1900. Some of them are the following;| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937) |
| 1900 | Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009) |
| 1900 | Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Gerd Arntz, German Modernist artist, co-creator of Isotype (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Ruth Clifford, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 1900 | Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932) |
| 1900 | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962) |
| 1900 | Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Dixie Brown, British boxer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (d. 1965) |
| 1901 | Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | George Lennon, Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (d. 1991) |
| 1901 | Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995) |
| 1900 | Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter (d. 2012) |
| 1900 | Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist (d. 1954) |
| 1900 | Leo Smit, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1943) |