1917: The Year in People

What happened in 1917

1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1917th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1917, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Died in 1917

• Buffalo Bill1846–1917 · American soldier and showman
• Albert Pinkham Ryder1847–1917 · American painter
• Edgar Degas1834–1917 · French Impressionist artist
• Auguste Rodin1840–1917 · French sculptor
• Dadabhai Naoroji1825–1917 · Indian politician, scholar and writer
• Bob Fitzsimmons1863–1917 · Cornish boxer
• Franz Brentano1838–1917 · Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson1836–1917 · English physician, doctor and feminist
• Edward Burnett Tylor1832–1917 · English anthropologist
• Albert Ball1896–1917 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross, British WWI flying ace
• Adolf von Baeyer1835–1917 · German chemist
• Ferdinand Georg Frobenius1849–1917 · German mathematician