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 C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
1900 William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)
1901 Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978)
1900 Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)
1900 Bill Aston, English race car driver (d. 1974)
1900 Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964)
1900 Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 (d. 1974)
1900 Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (d. 2004)
1900 Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961)
1900 Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (d. 1965)
1900 Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist (d. 1986)
1900 Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian sociologist and activist (d. 1954)
1900 Irmgard Bartenieff, German-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of dance therapy (d. 1981)
1900 Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (d. 1962)
1900 Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (d. 1967)
1900 Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, murdered in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941)
1900 Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1978)
1900 Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (d. 1985)
1900 Ismail al-Azhari, Sudanese politician, 3rd President of Sudan (d. 1969)
1900 Ida Lou Anderson, American orator and professor, pioneer in the field of radio broadcasting (d. 1941)
1900 Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941)
1900 Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1901 Art Rooney, American football player, coach and owner (d. 1988)
1900 Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992)
1900 George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)
1900 Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)
1900 Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer (d. 1987)
1900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1900 Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
1900 Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982)