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 | Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (d. 1939) |
| 1900 | Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (d. 1954) |
| 1900 | Ruth Norman, American religious leader (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (d. 1969) |
| 1900 | Leela Roy Nag, Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Karin Juel, Swedish singer, actress, and writer (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) |
| 1900 | John Babcock, Canadian-American sergeant (d. 2010) |
| 1900 | William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | David Marshall Williams, American convicted murderer and firearms designer (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985) |
| 1900 | Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d. 1981) |
| 1901 | Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995) |
| 1900 | Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner (d. 1941) |
| 1900 | Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. 1986) |
| 1900 | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974) |
| 1900 | Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947) |
| 1900 | Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 1900 | Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Roberto Arlt, Argentinian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1942) |
| 1900 | Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998) |
| 1901 | Chester Morris, American actor (d. 1970) |