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 |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Percy Chapman, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 1900 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966) |
| 1900 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944) |
| 1900 | Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1979) |
| 1901 | Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Lisy Fischer, Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy (d. 1999) |
| 1900 | Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator (d. 1984) [7] |
| 1900 | Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988) |
| 1900 | Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Belinda Dann, Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation, reunited with family aged 107 (d. 2007) |
| 1900 | Ted Lyons, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009) |
| 1900 | Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988) |
| 1901 | Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian racing driver and pilot (d. 1982) |
| 1900 | Gerald Marks, American composer (d. 1997) |
| 1900 | George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author (d. 1959) |
| 1900 | Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961) |
| 1901 | Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Alice Berry, Australian activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972) |
| 1900 | Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962) |
| 1900 | August Koern, Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (d. 1989) |
| 1900 | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (d. 1987) |