Famous Deaths Happened In 1917

Jan 02 On this day in history edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84  

Jan 06 On this day in history hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82  

Jan 10 On this day in history death of buffalo Bill Cody  

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 Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies in the year 1917.  

Jan 29 Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 in the year 1917.  

Feb 05 Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.  

Feb 06 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72 in the year 1917.  

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 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.  

Feb 15 In the year 1917 charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60  

Feb 16 On this day in history death of octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)  

Feb 17 In the year 1917 edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70  

Feb 18 Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies in the year 1917.  

Mar 06 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73 in the year 1917.  

Mar 08 In the year 1917 ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78  

Mar 18 In the year 1917 william Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies  

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

Mar 29 Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Apr 01 In the year 1917 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 On this day in history lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57  

Apr 18 On this day in history 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 On this day in history jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies  

May 03 On this day in history norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies  

May 11 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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 In the year 1917 leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72  

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Jan 01 In the year 1917 birth of jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)  

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

Jan 02 In the year 1917 birth of vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)  

Jan 03 Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 04 In the year 1917 birth of maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire  

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