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 |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Eliška Junková, Czechoslovakian race car driver (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Alfred Strange, English footballer (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1996) |
| 1900 | Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (d. 1997) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947) |
| 1900 | Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Ruth Norman, American religious leader (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003) |
| 1900 | Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer (d. 1950) |
| 1900 | Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (d. 1980) |
| 1901 | Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born American violinist and educator (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Georgia Hale, American silent film actress and real estate investor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968) |
| 1900 | Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982) |