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 | Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945) |
| 1901 | Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Martha Ostenso, Canadian screenwriter and novelist (d. 1963) |
| 1900 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author (d. 1999) |
| 1900 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (d. 1997) |
| 1900 | Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1901 | Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Adolf Dymsza, Polish actor (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet and author (d. 1977) |
| 1900 | Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1939) |
| 1900 | Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Joey Smallwood, Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009) |
| 1901 | Frank Buckles, American soldier (d. 2011) |
| 1900 | Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher (d. 2003) |
| 1900 | Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Gerald Marks, American composer (d. 1997) |
| 1900 | Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) |