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 | Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Lisy Fischer, Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy (d. 1999) |
| 1900 | Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009) |
| 1900 | Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician and teacher (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Marie Byles, Australian solicitor (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) |
| 1901 | Art Rooney, American football player, coach and owner (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d. 1981) |
| 1900 | Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Lucile Godbold, American athlete (d. 1981) |
| 1901 | Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) |
| 1900 | Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (d. 1938) |
| 1901 | Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2004) |
| 1900 | Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982) |
| 1901 | Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (d. 1971) |