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 | Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1979) |
| 1901 | Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974) |
| 1901 | James Murray, American actor (d. 1936) |
| 1900 | Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Nellie Mae Rowe, American folk artist (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943) |
| 1900 | Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988) |
| 1901 | Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Charles Farrell, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 1901 | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Shivrampant Damle, Indian educationist (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Ted Lyons, American baseball player (d. 1986) |