Famous Deaths In 1917

Jan 02 In the year 1917 edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84  

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

Jan 10 Buffalo Bill Cody died on this day in history.  

Jan 16 George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died in the year 1917.  

Jan 17 In the year 1917 hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70  

Jan 25 In the year 1917 edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies  

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

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

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

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

Feb 10 On this day in history emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73  

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

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

Feb 15 Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Mar 08 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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 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 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belg (1914-17), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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

May 01 In the year 1917 jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies  

May 03 Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1917.  

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

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

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

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire  

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

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