Famous Deaths In 1917

Jan 02 Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Jan 06 In the year 1917 hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82  

Jan 10 Buffalo Bill Cody died in the year 1917.  

Jan 16 On this day in history death of george Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)  

Jan 17 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

Jan 25 On this day in history edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies  

Jan 29 Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Feb 05 Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41 in the year 1917.  

Feb 06 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Feb 09 Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies in the year 1917.  

Feb 10 Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Feb 11 In the year 1917 death of oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)  

Feb 13 In the year 1917 joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48  

Feb 15 On this day in history charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60  

Feb 16 Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848) died in the year 1917.  

Feb 17 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

Feb 18 Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies on this day in history.  

Mar 06 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Mar 08 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78 in the year 1917.  

Mar 18 William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies in the year 1917.  

Mar 25 In the year 1917 death of elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)  

Mar 29 Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1917.  

Apr 01 On this day in history scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48  

Apr 07 On this day in history spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53  

Apr 09 In the year 1917 death of edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I  

Apr 14 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57 in the year 1917.  

Apr 18 In the year 1917 moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belg (1914-17), dies at 73  

Apr 24 Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies in the year 1917.  

May 01 Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies in the year 1917.  

May 03 In the year 1917 norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies  

May 11 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1917.  

May 17 In the year 1917 death of charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)  

May 20 Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850) died on this day in history.  

May 25 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

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Jan 01 Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01 Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) was born in the year 1917.  

Jan 02 On this day in history birth of vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)  

Jan 03 On this day in history birth of vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN  

Jan 03 Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004) was born in the year 1917.  

Jan 04 Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire was born in the year 1917.  

Jan 05 Reginald Smith Brindle, composer was born in the year 1917.  

Jan 05 In the year 1917 birth of wieland Wagner, German opera director