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 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Ruth Clifford, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 1900 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar (d. 2002) |
| 1900 | Julien Green, French-American author (d. 1998) |
| 1901 | Cassandre, French painter (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Julia Davis Adams, American author and journalist (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Irmgard Bartenieff, German-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of dance therapy (d. 1981) |
| 1900 | Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992) |
| 1900 | Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician and general, 1st President of Sudan (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Georgia Hale, American silent film actress and real estate investor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor (d. 2006) |
| 1900 | Basil Bunting, British poet (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988) |
| 1901 | Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Ted Lyons, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Heinrich Müller, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996) |
| 1900 | Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993) |