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 | Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Heinrich Müller, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1901 | Edward Turner, English engineer (d. 1973) |
| 1901 | Karl Künstler, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1901 | Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter (d. 2012) |
| 1900 | Helen Bradley, English painter (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957) |
| 1901 | Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932) |
| 1900 | Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (d. 1944) |
| 1901 | Cassandre, French painter (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Rhea Silberta, American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Shivrampant Damle, Indian educationist (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican director and producer (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Georges-Henri Bousquet, French economist and Islamologist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Mary Bothwell, Canadian classical vocalist and painter (d. 1985) |