Famous Deaths for Year 1917

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

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)