1917

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1914 1915 1916 – 1917 – 1918 1919 1920

Events

• Last year of Tsar Nicolas II of Russia's reign.
• Russian Revolutions (Russia goes communist)
• The United States declares war on Germany (for World War I)
• Influenza pandemic

Births

• February 4 – Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan.
• June 3 – Leo Gorcey, American actor

Deaths

• January 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
• 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 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (b. 1838)
• March 17 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• March 31 – Emil von Behring, German winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
• April 1 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 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)
• June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• July 27 – Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)
• 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 17 – 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)