Today in History for Year 1917

Months in Year 1917: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 250

Jan 2nd - Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank
Jan 8th - Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
Jan 9th - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
Jan 11th - Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in NYC
Jan 17th - US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21)
Jan 19th - Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
Jan 27th - Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)
Jan 28th - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
Jan 29th - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
Jan 30th - 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
Jan 31st - Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
Feb 1st - Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
Feb 3rd - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
Feb 4th - Belgium Council of Flanders established
Feb 5th - Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
Feb 5th - Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
Feb 5th - Present Mexican constitution adopted
Feb 10th - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor
Feb 15th - SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
Feb 16th - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
Feb 20th - Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
Feb 20th - Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC
Feb 21st - British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
Feb 21st - Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
Feb 22nd - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
Feb 23rd - February revolution begins in Russia
Feb 24th - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
Feb 24th - Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
Feb 24th - Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
Feb 26th - 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
Feb 28th - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
Feb 28th - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
Mar 1st - 1st federal land bank chartered
Mar 1st - U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
Mar 2nd - Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
Mar 3rd - Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
Mar 3rd - Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
Mar 4th - Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
Mar 5th - 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
Mar 7th - 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
Mar 8th - Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] (in Petrograd)
Mar 10th - Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.
Mar 11th - 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
Mar 11th - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
Mar 12th - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
Mar 12th - Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II Mar 15th - Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates
Mar 17th - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
Mar 17th - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
Mar 17th - Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.
Mar 19th - US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
Mar 21st - 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
Mar 23rd - Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
Mar 26th - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
Mar 28th - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
Mar 28th - Puccini's "La Rondine," premieres in Monte Carlo
Mar 31st - US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
Apr 2nd - Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps
Apr 2nd - Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
Apr 3rd - Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]
Apr 3rd - Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin Apr 6th - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
Apr 7th - De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid
Apr 7th - James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
Apr 9th - Battle of Arras begins
Apr 9th - Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
Apr 10th - Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
Apr 11th - Babe Ruth beats NY Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
Apr 12th - Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)
Apr 12th - Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome
Apr 14th - Chic White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
Apr 16th - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
Apr 19th - 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of NY in 2:28:37.2
Apr 20th - Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
Apr 24th - Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
May 2nd - Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
Baseball Great Babe Ruth May 3rd - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
May 4th - Arabs sack Tel Aviv
May 5th - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
May 6th - St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
May 7th - Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
May 10th - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
May 11th - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
May 12th - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
May 12th - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
May 13th - 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
May 13th - Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres
May 18th - Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris
May 18th - US passes Selective Service act
May 20th - Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
May 21st - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
May 21st - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
May 23rd - Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
May 26th - Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
May 27th - Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
May 30th - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
May 31st - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
Jun 1st - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
Jun 4th - 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
Jun 4th - American men begin registering for the draft

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 501

Jan 1st - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
Jan 1st - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
Jan 2nd - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
Jan 3rd - Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN
Jan 3rd - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
Jan 4th - Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire
Jan 5th - Reginald Smith Brindle, composer
Jan 5th - Wieland Wagner, German opera director
Jan 5th - Jane Wyman, St. Joseph, Missouri, American actress (Magnificent Obsession) and 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)
Jan 5th - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (d. 2006)
Jan 6th - Guillermo Rosario, Dutch Antilles, writer (E rais ku no ke muri)
Jan 6th - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
Jan 7th - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer
Jan 8th - Peter Taylor, US writer
Jan 8th - Stanley Prager, NYC, comedian (College Bowl)
Jan 9th - Herbert Lom, Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
Jan 10th - Jerry Wexler, music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan)
Jan 12th - Walter Hendl, West New York NJ, conductor
Jan 12th - Jimmy Skinner, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2007)
Jan 12th - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
Jan 13th - Felix Guerro Diaz, composer
Jan 16th - Buddy Lester, Chicago Ill, actor (Nick-Phil Silvers Show)
Jan 16th - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
Jan 17th - Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, (MGR), Indian film star, politician
Jan 17th - Oskar Morawetz, Svetla Czechoslovakia, composer
Jan 17th - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer
Jan 17th - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007)
Jan 18th - Oscar Lewenstein, impressario
Jan 18th - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
Jan 19th - John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt's father/singer/actor (Pajama Game)
Jan 19th - Rudolf Maros, composer
Jan 21st - Rohan Butler, historian
Jan 22nd - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist
Jan 22nd - Herwig Hensen, [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright
Jan 24th - Ernest Borgnine, Hamden Ct, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty), (d. 2012)
Jan 25th - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
Jan 25th - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
Jan 27th - Dunboyne, Lord
Jan 27th - Merrivale, Lord
Jan 29th - John Raitt, Santa Ana California, actor/singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game)
Jan 30th - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist d. 2008)
Jan 31st - Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner
Jan 31st - Jose Maceda, composer
Feb 4th - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician
Feb 6th - Zsa Zsa Gabor, [Zsa Sari], Budapest, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
Feb 6th - Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
Feb 6th - Liberato Firmino Sifonia, composer
Feb 7th - Dick Emery, London England, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love)
Feb 11th - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer
Novelist Sidney Sheldon (Feb 11th) Feb 11th - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline)
Feb 11th - T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976)
Feb 12th - Thomas K Scherman, NYC, conductor (Little Orch Society 1947-75)
Feb 12th - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (d. 2006)
Feb 13th - Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
Feb 14th - Herbert A Hauptman, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985)
Feb 17th - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
Feb 17th - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
Feb 18th - Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey)
Feb 19th - Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
Feb 20th - Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
Feb 21st - Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
Feb 21st - Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
Feb 22nd - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
Feb 22nd - Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
Feb 22nd - Jane Bowles, writer
Feb 23rd - Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) [or Mar 23]
Feb 24th - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
Feb 25th - Alex Gordon, architect
Novelist Anthony Burgess (Feb 25th) Feb 25th - Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
Feb 25th - Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker
Feb 26th - Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
Feb 27th - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade
Feb 28th - Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
Feb 28th - John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
Mar 1st - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
Mar 1st - Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
Mar 2nd - Desi Arnaz, Santiago Cuba, actor (I Love Lucy)
Mar 2nd - Jim Konstanty, baseball player (NL MVP 1950)
Mar 2nd - John Gardner, composer
Mar 2nd - David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967)
Mar 3rd - Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)
Mar 3rd - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
Mar 4th - Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
Mar 5th - Joseph Stone, lawyer
Mar 5th - Virginia Christine, Stanton Iowa, actress (Tales of Wells Fargo)
Mar 6th - J A Mommersteeg, Dutch asst sect of Defense (KVP)
Mar 6th - Roy Scott, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1947, 18, 1-74)
Mar 6th - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
Mar 6th - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
Mar 7th - Davis Roberts, Mobile Ala, actor (Mr Johnson-Boone)
Mar 7th - Janet Collins, ballerina
Mar 7th - Robert Erickson, composer
Mar 8th - A Marja, [ATE Mooy], Dutch literary (Shreds on the River)
Mar 9th - Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955- )
Mar 10th - Frank Perconte, American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII.
Mar 11th - Robert L Carter, Caryville, Florida, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v. Board of Education, NAACP v. Alabama) (d. 2012)
Mar 12th - Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
Mar 12th - Tom Normanton, British MP
Mar 13th - Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
Mar 13th - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Oct 21st - Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 99 of 99

Jan 2nd - Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84
Jan 6th - Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82
Jan 10th - Buffalo Bill Cody
Jan 16th - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
Jan 17th - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
Jan 25th - Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies
Jan 29th - Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75
Feb 5th - Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41
Feb 5th - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
Feb 6th - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72
Feb 9th - Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
Feb 10th - Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73
Feb 10th - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
Feb 11th - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
Feb 13th - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
Feb 15th - Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60
Feb 16th - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
Feb 17th - Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70
Feb 18th - Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
Mar 6th - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Mar 8th) Mar 8th - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
Mar 18th - William Shalders, South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
Mar 25th - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
Mar 29th - Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76
Apr 1st - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48
Apr 7th - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
Apr 9th - Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
Apr 9th - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
Apr 14th - Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
Apr 18th - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73
Apr 18th - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
Apr 24th - Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies
May 1st - Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
May 3rd - Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
May 11th - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66
May 17th - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
May 20th - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
May 20th - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
May 25th - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72
May 25th - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
Jun 6th - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
Jun 12th - Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
Jun 15th - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
Jun 15th - Lillian Bassman, Russian emigrant to America, photographer and painter (Harper's Bazaar), (d. 2012)
Jun 20th - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
Jun 27th - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79
Jul 2nd - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies
Jul 4th - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
Jul 8th - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
Jul 12th - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies
Jul 14th - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
Jul 16th - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
Jul 21st - Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot/capt, dies in battle
Jul 27th - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
Jul 31st - Charlie Finlason, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies
Jul 31st - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
Jul 31st - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
Aug 1st - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
Aug 7th - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
Aug 15th - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
Aug 20th - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
Aug 30th - Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (Sep 3rd) Sep 3rd - Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
Sep 5th - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
Sep 8th - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
Sep 11th - Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
Sep 12th - Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies
Sep 20th - Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17
Sep 23rd - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
Sep 25th - Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
Sep 26th - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies
Sep 27th - Edgar Degas, painter, Paris
Oct 9th - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
Oct 11th - Harry Trott, cricketer (Aust capt played 24 Tests 1888-1898), dies
Oct 13th - Florence La Badie, American actress
Oct 15th - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
Oct 17th - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
Oct 22nd - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
Oct 27th - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
Oct 28th - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
Oct 31st - Tibby Cotter, cricketer (at Beersheba 49 wickets for Australia), dies
Nov 3rd - Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
Nov 8th - Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I
Nov 11th - Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
Nov 13th - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies
Nov 14th - William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20
Sculptor Auguste Rodin (Nov 17th) Nov 17th - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77
Nov 18th - Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
Nov 19th - Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies
Nov 22nd - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
Dec 7th - Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91
Dec 8th - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
Dec 10th - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
Dec 17th - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
Dec 17th - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
Dec 20th - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882)
Dec 22nd - Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
Dec 26th - Louise J Gautier, French poetess/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71
Dec 28th - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)