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 | Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (d. 1933) |
| 1900 | Roger J. Traynor, American lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter (d. 2012) |
| 1901 | Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (d. 1938) |
| 1900 | Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Sándor Márai, Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971) |
| 1901 | Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | August Koern, Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator (d. 1984) [7] |
| 1900 | Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2014) |
| 1900 | Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Willis Laurence James, American violinist and educator (d. 1966) |
| 1900 | Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973) |
| 1901 | Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (d. 1984) |
| 1900 | Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Cyril Hume, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1966)[106] |
| 1900 | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1901 | Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985) |