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.
When is the Chinese Year of the Rat?
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 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Julia Davis Adams, American author and journalist (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, former First Lady of Cuba (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (d. 1946) |
| 1900 | Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974) |
| 1901 | Karl Künstler, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Georges-Henri Bousquet, French economist and Islamologist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Joey Smallwood, Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967 (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1996) |
| 1900 | Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 1901 | Stella Adler, American actress and educator (d. 1992) |
| 1900 | Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993) |