Famous Deaths Happened In 1917
Friday, 14 February 2025
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 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 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 Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 in the year 1917.
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 On this day in history francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
Feb 10 In the year 1917 emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73
Feb 11 On this day in history 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 On this day in history charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60
Feb 16 In the year 1917 death of octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
Feb 17 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70 on this day in history.
Feb 18 In the year 1917 charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
Mar 06 In the year 1917 jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
Mar 08 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78 on this day in history.
Mar 18 William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies on this day in history.
Mar 25 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832) died on this day in history.
Mar 29 Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.
Apr 01 On this day in history scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48
Apr 07 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53 in the year 1917.
Apr 09 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I died in the year 1917.
Apr 14 On this day in history lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
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 on this day in history.
May 03 On this day in history norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
May 11 On this day in history otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66
May 17 Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829) died in the year 1917.
May 20 In the year 1917 death of philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
May 25 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1917.
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