Year '1917' ('
MCMXVII') was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Sunday[1]
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1917
January
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January 2 - The
Royal Bank of Canada takes over
Quebec Bank.
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January 11 -
Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now
Lyndhurst, NJ) Due to German sabotage, leading to the U.S. involvement in
World War I.
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January 19 -
Silvertown explosion: a blast at a munitions factory in
London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
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January 22 -
World War I:
President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
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January 25
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★ The
Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million
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★ Anti-
prostitution drive in
San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7000 people, 20000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, an outspoken foe of prostitution, 300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration explaining they had been forced into the practice by poverty. When Smith asked if they would take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laughed derisively, which lost them public sympathy. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter
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January 26 - The sea defences at the English village of
Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable
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January 28 - The United States ends search for
Pancho Villa
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January 30 -
Pershing's troops in Mexico begin to withdraw to USA. They reach
Columbus, Ohio February 5
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January 31 - World War I:
Germany announces its
U-boats will engage in unrestricted
submarine warfare.
February
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February 3 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with
Germany.
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February 5 - The constitution of
Mexico is adopted.
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February 13 -
Mata Hari is arrested for
spying.
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February 24 - World War I: United States ambassador to the
United Kingdom Walter H. Page is given the
Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to
Mexico, if Mexico will declare war on the United States.
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February 26 - The
Original Dixieland Jass Band record their first commercial record, with "Livery Stable Blues" and "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" tunes.
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States announces to Congress the breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany
March
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March 1
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★ U.S. government releases the
plaintext of the
Zimmermann Telegram to the public
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★ Japanese city
Omuta, Fukuoka is founded by Hiroushi Miruku
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March 2 - The enactment of the
Jones Act grants
Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
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March 4
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US. President Woodrow Wilson, begins second term.
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Jeannette Rankin of
Montana becomes the first woman member of the
United States House of Representatives.
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March 8
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★ (N.S.) (
February 23, O.S.) - The Russian
February Revolution begins with the overthrow of the
Tsar.
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United States Senate adopts the
cloture rule in order to limit
filibusters.
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March 10 - The Province of
Batangas was formally founded as one of the
Philippines' first
encomienda.
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March 11 -
Mexican Revolution -
Venustiano Carranza elected president of
Mexico -
USA gives recognition of his government ''
de jure''
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March 15 (N.S.) (
March 2, O.S.) - Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia abdicates his throne for his brother.
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March 17 (N.S.) (
March 4, O.S.) -
Grand Duke Michael refuses the throne and power in Russia passes to the newly-formed
Provisional Government under
Prince Georgy Lvov.
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March 21 - The Danish West Indies become the
Virgin Islands when Denmark transfers control over the islands to the United States after the purchase of the islands on
January 25.
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March 26 - World War I:
First Battle of Giza - British cavalry troops retreat after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
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March 31 - The United States takes possession of the
Virgin Islands after paying $25 million to Denmark.
April
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April 2 - World War I: US President Woodrow Wilson asks
U.S. Congress for a
declaration of war on Germany.
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April 6 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany.
text
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April 9-
12 - World War I: Canadian troops win the
Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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April 10 - Ammunition factory explodes in
Chester, Pennsylvania - 133 dead.
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April 11 - World War I:
Brazil severs relations with Germany.
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April 16
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Lenin arrives in
Petrograd.
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★ The
Nivelle Offensive commences.
May
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May 9 - The
Nivelle Offensive was abandoned.
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May 13 - Three peasant children claim to see the
Virgin Mary above a
Holm Oak tree in
Cova da Iria near
Fátima,
Portugal.
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May 13 - The nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future
Pope Pius XII, is consecrated
Archbishop by
Pope Benedict XV[2]
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May 18 -
World War I: The
Selective Service Act passes the
U.S. Congress giving the
President the power of
conscription.
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May 21 - Over 300 acres (73 blocks) destroyed in
Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
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May 26 -
Tornado strikes
Mattoon,
Illinois causing devastation and killing 101 people.
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May 27 - Over 30.000
French troops refuse to go to the trenches in
Missy-aux-Bois.
June
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June 1 -
French infantry regiment seizes
Missy-aux-Bois and declares anti-war military government.
French army soon apprehend them.
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June 4 - The very first
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded:
Laura E. Richards,
Maud Howe Elliott, and
Florence Hall receive the first
Pulitzer for a biography (for ''
Julia Ward Howe'').
Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first
Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days.''
Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first
Pulitzer for
journalism for his work for the ''
New York World.''
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June 5 -
World War I:
Conscription begins in the
United States as "Army registration day."
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June 13 -
World War I: First major
German bombing raid on
London left 162 dead and 432 injured
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June 15 - The
United States enacts the
Espionage Act.
July
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July 1 -
Labor Dispute ignites a
Race Riot in
East St. Louis, Illinois. Over 250 dead.
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July 6
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Arabian troops led by
T.E. Lawrence capture
Aqaba from the
Turks.
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Conscription crisis in Canada leads to passing of the Military Service Act.
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July 12 -
Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1000 suspected
IWW members from
Bisbee, Arizona.
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July 17 - King
George V of the United Kingdom issues a
Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the
British Royal Family will bear the surname
Windsor.
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July 20
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★
Corfu Declaration that enabled post-war
Kingdom of Yugoslavia was signed by the
Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of
Serbia.
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★ (N.S.) (
July 7, O.S.) -
Alexander Kerensky becomes
premier of the
Russian Provisional Government, replacing
Prince Georgy Lvov.
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July 25 -
Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first
income tax in
Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
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July 28 - The
Silent Protest was organized by the
NAACP in
New York to protest the
East St. Louis Massacre of July 2, as well as lynchings in
Texas and
Tennessee.
August
★
August - The
Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the
World War I draft, takes place in central
Oklahoma.
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August 2 -
Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning became the
first pilot to land his aircraft on a ship when he landed his
Sopwith Pup on
HMS Furious in
Scapa Flow,
Orkney. He was killed five days later during another landing on the ship.
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August 3 -
New York Guard founded.
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August 10 - General strike in Spain begins, smashed after three days with 70 left dead, hundreds of wounded and 2000 prisoners.
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August 17 - One of English literature's most important and most famous meetings takes place when
Wilfred Owen introduces himself to
Siegfried Sassoon at
Craiglockhart War Hospital in
Edinburgh.
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August 18 - A
Great Fire in
Thessaloniki,
Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
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August 29 -
World War I: The
Military Service Act is passed in the
Canadian House of Commons giving the
Government of Canada the right to conscript men into the army.
September
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September 11 -
Torrance High School opens in
Torrance, CA
October
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October 15 -
World War I: At
Vincennes outside of
Paris,
Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by
firing squad for
spying for
Germany.
★
October 19 -
Love Field in
Dallas, Texas is opened.
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October 26 -
World War I:
Brazil declared in state of war with
Germany.
November
★
November -
Don Republic declares
independence from
Bolshevist Russia
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November 2 -
Zionism: The
Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for
Jewish settlement in
Palestine.
★
November 6 - World War I:
Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take
Passchendaele in
Belgium.
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November 7 -
October Revolution begins: The workers of St. Petersburg in
Russia, led by the Bolsheviks and the
Bolshevik leader
Vladimir Lenin, attacked the ineffective
Kerensky Provisional Government (Russia was still using the
Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show an
October 25 date). The Soviets of Workers, Farmers and Soldiers took control of the economy and the administration of a country for the first time in history. The
Safavid Empire of
Persia (which provided weapons for
Russia) refuses to support the
Allied Forces after the
October Revolution and surrenders from the war.
★
November 7 - World War I:
Third Battle of Giza ends -
United Kingdom forces capture
Giza from the
Ottoman Empire.
★
November 15 -
Finland takes a step towards full
sovereignty recognizing the
personal union with
Russia finished after the
Tsar being dethroned.
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November 16
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★
British troops occupy
Tel Aviv and
Jaffa in
Palestine.
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★
Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of
France
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November 18 -
Sigma Alpha Rho, Jewish
high school fraternity, is founded in
West Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
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November 20
★
★ World War I:
Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.
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Ukraine is declared a republic.
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November 22 - In
Montreal,
Canada, the
National Hockey Association breaks up.
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November 26 - The
National Hockey League is formed as a replacement.
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November 29 - Striking coal miners at
Rostov declare
Don Soviet Republic - it lasts two weeks.
December
★
December 3 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the
Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on
August 29 1907 and
September 11 1916).
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December 6
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Finland's declaration of independence.
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★
Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in
Halifax Harbour at
Halifax Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1963 people, injures 9000 and destroys part of the city. Until
Hiroshima, this was the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history.
★
December 11 - British troops take
Jerusalem from the troops of the
Ottoman Empire
★
December 25 - ''
Why Marry?'', first dramatic play to win a
Pulitzer Prize, opens at the
Astor Theatre in
New York City.
★
December 26 -
United States president
Woodrow Wilson uses the
Federal Possession and Control Act to take control of nearly all American
railroads under the
United States Railroad Administration so they can be more efficiently used to transport troops and materials for the war effort.
Undated
★
Lions Clubs International is formed.
★
J.R.R. Tolkien begins writing the original ''
Book of Lost Tales'' (the first version of ''
The Silmarillion''); thus
Middle-earth is first written in about this year.
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Female suffrage in the
Netherlands
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True Jesus Church is established in
Beijing.
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Oreland Boy Scout Troop 1 is established.
Ongoing
★
World War I (
1914-
1918).
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Encephalitis lethargica (1917-
1928).
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Russian Revolution.
Births
January-February
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January 2 -
Vera Zorina, German dancer and actress (d.
2003)
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January 3 -
Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d.
2004)
★
January 5 -
Jane Wyman, American actress
★
January 6 -
Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d.
2005)
★
January 10 -
Jerry Wexler, American record producer
★
January 12 -
Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings head coach (d.
2007)
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January 19
★
★
John Raitt, American actor and singer (d.
2005)
★
★
Graham Higman, British mathematician
★
January 24 -
Ernest Borgnine, American actor
★
January 25 -
Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
2003)
★
January 26 -
William Verity Jr., American politician (d.
2007)
★
February 1 -
James Harry Lacey, a.k.a Squadron Leader James "Ginger" Lacey DFM & Bar, the top scoring RAF fighter pilot during the
Battle of Britain (d.
1989)
★
February 2 -
Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese leader
★
February 4
★
★
Yahya Khan,
President of Pakistan (d.
1980)
★
★
Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian
existentialist philosopher (d.
2002)
★
February 6 -
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress
★
February 11 -
Sidney Sheldon, American author (d.
2007)
★
February 14 -
Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
★
February 17 -
Joseph Conombo,
Prime Minister of Upper Volta
★
February 18 -
Tuulikki Pietilä, Finnish artist
★
February 19 -
Carson McCullers, American author (d.
1967)
★
February 25 -
Anthony Burgess, English author (d.
1993)
★
February 27 -
John Connally, Governor of Texas (d.
1993)
★
February 28 -
Fidel Sánchez Hernández,
President of El Salvador (d.
2003)
March-April
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March 1
★
★
Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster (d.
1998)
★
★
Robert Lowell, American poet (d.
1977)
★
March 2
★
★
Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician (d.
1986)
★
★
John Gardner (composer), British composer
★
★
Laurie Baker, English architect (d.
2007)
★
March 4 -
Clyde McCullough, American baseball catcher (d.
1982)
★
March 5 -
Raymond P. Shafer, Governor of Pennsylvania (d.
2006)
★
March 12 -
Googie Withers, British actress
★
March 14 -
John McCallum, Australian actor
★
March 16 -
Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (d.
1977)
★
March 19 -
Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d.
1950)
★
March 20 -
Vera Lynn, English actress and singer
★
March 22 -
Paul Rogers (actor), English actor
★
March 24 -
John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
1997)
★
March 26 -
Rufus Thomas, American singer (d.
2001)
★
March 27 -
Cyrus Vance, American politician (d.
2002)
★
April 1 -
Sydney Newman, Canadian-born television producer (d.
1997)
★
April 2 -
Dabbs Greer, American actor (d.
2007)
★
April 5 -
Robert Bloch, American writer (d.
1994)
★
April 10 -
Robert B. Woodward, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
★
April 12 -
Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (d.
1999)
★
April 14 -
Marvin Miller, baseball executive
★
April 15 -
James Kee, American politician (d.
1989)
★
April 17 -
Bill Clements, Governor of Texas
★
April 22 -
Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina
★
April 25 -
Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer (d.
1996)
★
April 26 -
Virgil Trucks, baseball player
★
April 30 -
Bea Wain, American singer
May-June
★
May 1 -
Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator
★
May 3 -
Kiro Gligorov,
President of the Republic of Macedonia
★
May 8 -
John Anderson, Jr., American politician
★
May 12 -
Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d.
2005)
★
May 14 -
Lou Harrison, American composer (d.
2003)
★
May 16
★
★
George Gaynes, Finnish-born actor
★
★
James C. Murray, American politician (d.
1999)
★
May 20 -
Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d.
2005)
★
May 21 -
Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (d.
1993)
★
May 22 -
Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d.
1999)
★
May 25 -
Theodore Hesburgh, American priest and educator
★
May 28 -
Papa John Creech, American fiddler (d.
1994)
★
May 29 -
John F. Kennedy,
President of the United States (d.
1963)
★
June 1 -
William S. Knowles, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
June 7 -
Dean Martin, American actor (d.
1995)
★
June 10 -
Eric Hobsbawm, British historian
★
June 10 -
Ruari McLean, British typographer (d.
2006)
★
June 15 -
John Bennett Fenn, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
June 15 -
Lash La Rue, American cowboy actor (d.
1996)
★
June 16
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★
Irving Penn, American photographer
★
★
Katharine Graham, American publisher (d.
2001)
★
June 17
★
★
Ben Bubar, American presidential candidate. (d.
1994)
★
★
Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d.
2007)
★
June 30 -
Lena Horne, American singer
July-August
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July 1 -
Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d.
2004)
★
July 4 -
Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d.
1947)
★
July 7 -
Fidel Sánchez Hernández,
President of El Salvador (d.
2003)
★
July 10
★
★
Don Herbert, American television personality (d.
2007)
★
★
Reg Smythe, British cartoonist (d.
1998)
★
July 16 -
William Woodson, American voice actor
★
July 17
★
★
Phyllis Diller, American comedian
★
★
Red Sovine, American country & folk singer & songwriter (d.
1980)
★
July 18 -
Henri Salvador, French singer
★
July 19 -
William Scranton, American politician
★
August 11 -
Dik Browne, American Cartoonist (d.
1989)
★
August 15
★
★
Jack Lynch,
President of Ireland (d.
1999)
★
★
Oscar Romero,
El Salvador Roman catholic Archbishop (d.
1980)
★
August 18 -
Caspar Weinberger,
United States Secretary of Defense (d.
2006)
★
August 22 -
John Lee Hooker, American musician (d.
2001)
★
August 28 -
Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d.
1994)
★
August 29 -
Isabel Sanford, American actress (d.
2004)
★
August 30 -
Denis Healey, British author and politician
September-October
★
September 3 -
Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (d
2000)
★
September 6 -
Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler
★
September 7 -
John Cornforth, Australian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
September 10 -
Miguel Serrano, Chilean diplomat, explorer, and journalist
★
September 11
★
★
Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor
★
★
Ferdinand Marcos,
President of the Philippines (d.
1989)
★
September 13 -
Robert Ward, American composer (d.
1994)
★
September 15 -
Shanul Haq Haqqee, Pakistani poet, author, lexicographer (d.
2005)
★
September 20 -
Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (d.
2006)
★
September 25 -
Johnny Sain, baseball player (d.
2006)
★
September 27 -
Louis Auchincloss, American novelist
★
October 2 -
Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
October 7 -
June Allyson, American actress (d.
2006)
★
October 8
★
★
Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (d.
1976)
★
★
Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1985)
★
October 10 -
Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d.
1982)
★
October 15
★
★
Jan Miner, American actress (d.
2004)
★
★
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (d.
2007)
★
October 21 -
Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d.
1993)
★
October 22 -
Joan Fontaine, British-born actress
★
October 30 -
Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d.
2005)
★
October 31 -
Thomas Hill, Canadian actor
November-December
★
November 11 -
Madeleine Damerment, French World War II heroine (d.
1944)
★
November 18 -
Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d.
1957)
★
November 19 -
Indira Gandhi,
Prime Minister of India (d.
1984)
★
November 20 -
Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator from West Virginia
★
November 22 -
Andrew Huxley, English scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
December 6 -
Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d.
1977)
★
December 9 -
James Rainwater, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1986)
★
December 10 -
Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d.
1979)
★
December 16 -
Arthur C. Clarke, British/Sri Lankan science-fiction author
★
December 20 -
David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d.
1992)
★
December 21 -
Heinrich Böll, German writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1985)
★
December 22 -
Gene Rayburn, American television personality (d.
1999)
★
December 27 -
Onni Palaste, Finnish writer
★
December 28 -
Ellis Clarke,
President of Trinidad and Tobago
★
December 29 -
Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d.
2005)
★
December 30 -
Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d.
2004)
Deaths
January - June
★
January 2 -
Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b.
1832)
★
January 4 -
Frederick Selous, explorer (killed in action)
★
January 10 -
William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), American frontiersman (b.
1846)
★
January 16 -
George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b.
1837)
★
February 5 -
Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of
Kuwait (b.
1860)
★
February 10 -
John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b.
1849)
★
March 5 -
Manuel de Arriaga, first president of
Portugal (b.
1840)
★
March 8 -
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (b.
1838)
★
March 17 -
Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b.
1838)
★
March 31 -
Emil Adolf von Behring, German winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1854)
★
April 1 -
Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b.
1867-
1868)
★
April 14 -
L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b.
1859)
★
May 17 -
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b.
1829)
★
May 20 -
Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b.
1850)
★
May 25 -
Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b.
1891)
★
June 26 -
John Dunville, British Army officer (b.
1896)
★
June 30 -
Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b.
1861)
July - December
★
July 8 -
Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b.
1877)
★
July 16 -
Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b.
1847)
★
July 27 -
Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1841)
★
July 31 -
Francis Ledwidge, poet (killed in action) (b.
1887)
★
August 13 -
Eduard Buchner, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1860)
★
August 20 -
Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1835)
★
August 30 -
Alan Leo, British astrologer (b.
1860)
★
September 27 -
Edgar Degas, French painter (b.
1834)
★
October 13 -
Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (b.
1888)
★
October 15 -
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (executed) (b.
1876)
★
October 23 -
Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b.
1845)
★
October 28 -
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b.
1831)
★
November 8 -
Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b.
1879)
★
November 11 - Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawai'i (b.
1838)
★
November 15 -
Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b.
1858)
★
November 17
★
★
Neil James Archibald Primrose, MP (killed in action) (b.
1882)
★
★
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b.
1840)
★
December 8 -
Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian Yiddish and Hebrew writer (b.
1836)
★
December 10 -
Mackenzie Bowell,
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1824)
★
December 12 -
Andrew Taylor Still, American father of osteopathy (b.
1828)
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December 28 -
Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b.
1892)
Nobel prizes
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Physics -
Charles Glover Barkla
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Chemistry - Ben Williams
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Medicine - not awarded
★
Literature -
Karl Adolph Gjellerup,
Henrik Pontoppidan
★
Peace -
International Committee of the Red Cross
Notes
1.
"Calendar in year 1917 (Russia)" (Julian calendar), webpage:
Julian-1917 (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian).
2. L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 12/19 August 1998, page 9
External links
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1917 Coin Pictures
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