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 | Willie Kamm, American baseball player and manager (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947) |
| 1900 | Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985) |
| 1900 | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (d. 1984) |
| 1901 | Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Albert Hawke, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Jessica Dragonette, American singer (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, former First Lady of Cuba (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Ruth Clifford, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 1900 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Helen Bradley, English painter (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941) |
| 1901 | Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Ruth Norman, American religious leader (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | V. S. Pritchett, British writer and literary critic (d. 1997) |