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 | Hal Borland, American journalist and author (d. 1978) |
| 1901 | Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996) |
| 1900 | Julien Green, French-American author (d. 1998) |
| 1900 | Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (d. 1986) |
| 1901 | Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009) |
| 1900 | Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017) |
| 1900 | George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969) |
| 1901 | A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist, screenwriter, historian (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Basil Bunting, British poet (d. 1985) |
| 1901 | Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Estelle Brody, American silent film actress (d. 1995) |
| 1900 | Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter and educator (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Dixie Brown, British boxer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (d. 1990) |
| 1900 | Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Charles Farrell, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 1900 | Aleksander Wat, Polish poet and writer (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1939) |
| 1900 | Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver (d. 1981) |
| 1900 | Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (d. 1933) |
| 1900 | Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education (d. 1994) |