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 |
|---|---|
| 1900 | James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (d. 1954) |
| 1900 | Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947) |
| 1900 | Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist and ballet dancer (d. 1948) |
| 1900 | Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | William Stevenson, American track and fielder (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998) |
| 1900 | Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003) |
| 1900 | Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932) |
| 1901 | Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | John T. Scopes, American educator (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | David Marshall Williams, American convicted murderer and firearms designer (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978) |
| 1901 | Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2014) |
| 1900 | Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990) |
| 1900 | Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943) |
| 1900 | Nellie Mae Rowe, American folk artist (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Don Redman, American composer, and bandleader (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |