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 | Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943) |
| 1900 | Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937) |
| 1900 | Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Margret Boveri, German journalist (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet and author (d. 1977) |
| 1901 | A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist, screenwriter, historian (d. 1991) |
| 1901 | Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Anna Maurizio, Swiss biologist, known for her study of bees (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War (d. 1972) |
| 1900 | Julien Green, French-American author (d. 1998) |
| 1900 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Charles Farrell, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 1900 | Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992) |
| 1900 | Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent (d. 2000) |
| 1900 | Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Lisy Fischer, Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy (d. 1999) |
| 1900 | Sándor Márai, Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017) |
| 1900 | Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (d. 1974) |