Famous Deaths In 1917

Jan 02 Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 in the year 1917.

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

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 On this day in history hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70

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

Jan 29 On this day in history evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75

Feb 05 In the year 1917 paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41

Feb 06 On this day in history edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72

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 in the year 1917.

Feb 11 Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872) died in the year 1917.

Feb 13 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.

Feb 15 On this day in history 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 On this day in history edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70

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

Mar 06 In the year 1917 jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73

Mar 08 On this day in history ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78

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 Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48 on this day in history.

Apr 07 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.

Apr 09 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I died in the year 1917.

Apr 14 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57 on this day in history.

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

Apr 24 In the year 1917 oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies

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

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

May 11 On this day in history otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66

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 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)

Jan 02 Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born in the year 1917.

Jan 03 Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN was born in the year 1917.

Jan 03 In the year 1917 birth of roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)

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

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of reginald Smith Brindle, composer

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of wieland Wagner, German opera director