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 | Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947) |
| 1900 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (d. 1990) |
| 1901 | Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (d. 1987) |
| 1901 | James Murray, American actor (d. 1936) |
| 1901 | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer (d. 1950) |
| 1901 | Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 1900 | Otto Luening, German-American composer and conductor (d. 1996) |
| 1900 | Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Albert Hawke, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) |
| 1900 | Dixie Brown, British boxer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (d. 1932) |
| 1900 | Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, former First Lady of Cuba (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Jonel Perlea, Romanian-American conductor and educator (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Sándor Márai, Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, murdered in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957) |