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 | Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Jimmy Dimmock, English footballer (d. 1972) |
| 1900 | Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941) |
| 1901 | Brian Donlevy, American actor (d. 1972) |
| 1900 | Jessica Dragonette, American singer (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (d. 1933) |
| 1901 | Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971) |
| 1901 | Frank Buckles, American soldier (d. 2011) |
| 1900 | Hawayo Takata, Japanese-American teacher and master practitioner of Reiki (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Don Redman, American composer, and bandleader (d. 1964) |
| 1900 | Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964) |
| 1901 | Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955) |
| 1900 | Frances Adaskin, Canadian pianist (d. 2001) |
| 1900 | Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter (d. 2012) |
| 1900 | Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar (d. 2002) |
| 1900 | Joey Smallwood, Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962) |
| 1900 | Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976) |
| 1901 | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934) |
| 1900 | Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (d. 1954) |
| 1901 | Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989) |