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 |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1949) |
| 1900 | Albert Walsh, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Eliška Junková, Czechoslovakian race car driver (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War (d. 1972) |
| 1900 | Charles Farrell, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 1900 | Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (d. 1933) |
| 1900 | Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (d. 1997) |
| 1900 | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) |
| 1900 | Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Asbjørg Borgfelt, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961) |
| 1901 | Frank Buckles, American soldier (d. 2011) |
| 1900 | Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | June Walker, American stage and film actress (d. 1966) |
| 1900 | Percy Chapman, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician and general, 1st President of Sudan (d. 1983) |