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.
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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 | Margret Boveri, German journalist (d. 1975) |
| 1900 | Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Alice Berry, Australian activist (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host (d. 1981) |
| 1900 | Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 1901 | Arthur Wirtz, American businessman (d. 1983) |
| 1900 | Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990) |
| 1900 | Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993) |
| 1900 | Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (d. 1969) |
| 1900 | Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945) |
| 1900 | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director (d. 1971) |
| 1900 | Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Lucille Lortel, American actress and producer (d. 1999) |
| 1900 | Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017) |
| 1900 | Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Lisy Fischer, Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy (d. 1999) |
| 1900 | Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (d. 1939) |
| 1900 | June Walker, American stage and film actress (d. 1966) |
| 1900 | Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976) |
| 1900 | Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003) |
| 1900 | Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1900 | Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (d. 1938) |
| 1900 | Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965) |