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.
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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 |
|---|---|
| 1901 | James Murray, American actor (d. 1936) |
| 1900 | Anna Maurizio, Swiss biologist, known for her study of bees (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017) |
| 1900 | Rhea Silberta, American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Hughie Critz, American baseball player (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992) |
| 1900 | Adolf Dymsza, Polish actor (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist (d. 1954) |
| 1900 | Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967 (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor (d. 2006) |
| 1900 | Pauline A. Young, American teacher, historian, aviator and activist (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Leela Roy Nag, Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini (d. 1943) |
| 1900 | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) |
| 1900 | Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 1901 | Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Asbjørg Borgfelt, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996) |