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 | Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Margret Boveri, German journalist (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist (d. 2004) |
| 1900 | Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) |
| 1901 | Alfred Tarski, Polish-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1983) |
| 1901 | Frank Buckles, American soldier (d. 2011) |
| 1900 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Eliška Junková, Czechoslovakian race car driver (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (d. 1939) |
| 1901 | Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Sophie Harris, English costume and scenic designer for theatre and opera (d. 1966) |
| 1900 | Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003) |
| 1900 | Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer (d. 1987) |
| 1901 | Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) |
| 1900 | Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Inger Margrethe Boberg, Danish folklore researcher and writer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Marie Byles, Australian solicitor (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) |
| 1900 | Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, murdered in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (d. 1962) |