Famous Deaths In 1917

Jan 02 In the year 1917 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 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 On this day in history edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies  

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

Feb 05 On this day in history 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 On this day in history francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies  

Feb 10 Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1917.  

Feb 11 Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872) died on this day in history.  

Feb 13 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48 in the year 1917.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 18 On this day in history charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies  

Mar 06 On this day in history 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 On this day in history william Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies  

Mar 25 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832) died in the year 1917.  

Mar 29 On this day in history fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76  

Apr 01 Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48 in the year 1917.  

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

Apr 09 On this day in history death of edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I  

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 in the year 1917.  

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 On this day in history death of charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)  

May 20 In the year 1917 death of philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)  

May 25 In the year 1917 leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72  

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

Jan 01 In the year 1917 birth of albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)  

Jan 02 Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03 In the year 1917 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 on this day in history.  

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