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 | Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) |
| 1901 | Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939) |
| 1900 | Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Don Redman, American composer, and bandleader (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | V. S. Pritchett, British writer and literary critic (d. 1997) |
| 1900 | Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1996) |
| 1900 | Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist and ballet dancer (d. 1948) |
| 1901 | Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967 (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor (d. 2006) |
| 1900 | Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1901 | Karl Künstler, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator (d. 1984) [7] |
| 1900 | Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Isadora Bennett, American theatre manager and modern dance publicity agent (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Anis Fuleihan, Cypriot-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996) |
| 1901 | Frank Buckles, American soldier (d. 2011) |