E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader ( d. 1995 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter ( b. 1917 )

* August 6 – Andrew Taylor Still, father of osteopathy ( d. 1917 )

* May 30 – Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist ( b. 1917 )

Samuel Andrew Jackson Cockayne married Hannah Jane Alexander ( 1840 – 1917 ) in 1863.

The younger was the 1963 Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Andrew Huxley ( 1917 – 2012 ).

It is named after its benefactor Andrew Jackson Zilker, who donated the land to the city in 1917.

Political scientist Andrew Price-Smith published data from the Austrian archives suggesting the influenza had earlier origins, beginning in Austria in the spring of 1917.

Klein was born in Calgary to Phillip Andrew Klein ( born September 29, 1917 ) and Florence Harper ( 1924 – 2004 ).

Notable Vassar alumni include first black graduate Anita Florence Hemmings ( 1897 ), poet Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1917 ), computer pioneer Grace Hopper ( 1928 ), poet Elizabeth Bishop ( 1934 ), physician Beatrix Hamburg ( 1944 ), politician and activist Frances Farenthold, psychiatrist Bernadine P. Healy ( 1965 ), actress Meryl Streep ( 1971 ), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid ( 1977 ), television personality Andrew Zimmern ( 1984 ), actress Lisa Kudrow ( 1985 ), actress Hope Davis ( 1986 ), musician Mark Ronson, journalist Evan Wright ( 1988 ), writer-director Noah Baumbach ( 1991 ), Flickr founder Caterina Fake ( 1991 ), What Not to Wear host Stacy London ( 1991 ), Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn ( 1996 ), actress Lecy Goranson.

* 1917 in art-Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth ; Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Marcel Duchamp produces Fountain

* Ludwig ( 1854 – 1921 ), created first Marquess of Milford Haven in 1917, married in 1884 Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine ( 1863 – 1950 ), with issue ( including Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Queen Louise of Sweden, and the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ).

Further extensions opened to Broadway on December 15, 1917 and Andrew on June 29, 1918, both prepayment stations for streetcar transfer.

John William Rolfe Kempe ( 29 October 1917 – 10 May 2010 ) was headmaster of Gordonstoun School from 1968 – 1978, during the period that The Princes Andrew and Edward arrived at the school.

* Robert Andrew Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote ( 1917 – 1999 )

* Andrew Wyeth: ( 1917 – 2009 ) American realist painter

In 1917 Anslinger married Martha Kind Denniston, niece of Andrew W. Mellon ( Sept 1886 – Oct 10, 1961 ).

The era of the large glass-mirror reflector had begun, with telescopes such as Andrew Ainslie Common's 1879 36 inch ( 91 cm ) and 1887 60 inch ( 152 cm ) reflectors built at Ealing, and the first of the " modern " large glass mirror research reflectors, 60 inch ( 150 cm ) Mount Wilson Observatory Hale telescope of 1908, and the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Mount Wilson Hooker telescope in 1917.

** Sir Andrew Huxley ( born 1917 ), British physiologist and biophysicist, son of Leonard

Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley ( born 1914 and 1917, respectively, in Great Britain ), are known for their collaborative effort to understand the production of action potentials in giant squid neurons.

* Andrew Murray ( minister ) ( 1828 – 1917 ), South African religious minister, missionary, and author

* Caroline Blackwood ( 1931 – 1996 ), writer, lived for a time in Castletown, originally with her husband, the depressive American poet Robert Lowell ( 1917 – 1977 ) and then with the poet Andrew Harvey ( b 1951 ).

* Andrew Murray ( jnr ) ( 1828 – 1917 ) was a Christian pastor and author who was born in Graaff-Reinet.

* Andrew Taylor Still ( 1828 – 1917 ), American physician and founder of osteopathy