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 )

* Buffalo Bill ( 1845 – 1917 ), American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman

* 1846 – William F. " Buffalo Bill " Cody, American frontiersman ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – William F. " Buffalo Bill " Cody, American frontiersman ( b. 1846 )

* February 26 – William F. " Buffalo Bill " Cody, American frontiersman ( d. 1917 )

" Yet when a declaration of war was passed by the U. S. Congress in April 1917, the IWW's general secretary-treasurer Bill Haywood became determined that the organization should adopt a low profile in order to avoid perceived threats to its existence.

The new air service was to receive direction from a new ministry and on 29 November 1917 the Air Force Bill received Royal Assent and the Air Ministry was formed just over a month later on 2 January 1918.

The first stories were published in 1917 by Edward O ' Reilly for The Century Magazine, and collected and reprinted in 1923 in the book Saga of Pecos Bill ( 1923 ).

* Bill Everett ( 1917 – 1973 ), American comic book writer

Cotham's Mercantile Store, a widely-known community restaurant favored by former President Bill Clinton, is housed in a former general store building constructed in 1917, and still displays multiple antique farm implements.

William Frederick " Buffalo Bill " Cody ( February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917 ) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman.

After the Air Force Bill received the Royal Assent on 29 November 1917, there followed a period of political manoeuvring and speculation over who would take up the new posts of Air Minister, Chief of the Air Staff and other senior positions within soon-to-be created Air Ministry.

He was briefly lured to Los Angeles, California, by Jelly Roll Morton and Bill Johnson in 1917, but objected to being told to dress and behave differently than he was accustomed to back home, and promptly returned to New Orleans.

William ( Bill ) Colvig ( 1917 – 2000 ) was an electrician and amateur musician who was the partner for 33 years of composer Lou Harrison, whom he met in San Francisco, California in 1967.

Poliakoff explores the story of John, his relationship with his family, John's brother, Prince George, the political events going on at the time ( like the fall of the House of Romanov in 1917 ) and the love and devotion shown to him by his nanny, Charlotte Bill ( known as Lalla ), played by Gina McKee.

Glackens ( 1915 – 1919 ), Leighton Budd ( 1916 – 1919 ), Leslie Elton ( 1916 – 1919 ), Wallace A. Carlson ( 1917 – 1920 ), Milt Gross ( 1919 – 1920, 1922 – 1923 ), Frank Moser ( 1916, 1920 – 1921 ), Ashley Miller ( 1916, 1922 – 1923 ), Gregory La Cava ( 1919 – 1921 ), F. Lyle Goldman ( 1920, 1922 – 1923 ), W. C. Morris ( 1915 – 1916 ), Paul Terry ( 1915 – 1916 ), Clarence Rigby ( 1916 – 1917 ), E. Dean Parmelee ( 1918 – 1919 ), Dave Fleischer ( 1920 – 1921 ), Jean Gic ( 1920 – 1921 ), Burt Gillett ( 1920 – 1921 ), Grim Natwick ( 1920 – 1921 ), Bill Nolan ( 1920 – 21 ), J.

William Putnam " Bill " Bundy ( September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000 ) was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

* Bill Fischer ( Australian footballer ) ( 1883 – 1917 ), Australian rules footballer and soldier

William Perry " Bill " Clements, Jr. ( April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011 ) was the 42nd and 44th Governor of Texas, serving from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991.

The body met through 1917 and 1918 and consisted of, in addition to Lloyd George: Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada ; Louis Botha and General Jan Smuts, each successively Prime Minister of South Africa ; Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia ; Bill Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand ; and Sir James Meston, the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

In 1917, he created the part of Bruce Bairnsfather's " Old Bill " in a stage adaptation called The Better ' Ole at the Oxford Music Hall, where it ran for over 800 performances.

The 1917 Medal of Honor Board never rescinded any medals in 1917 but instead deleted 911 names from the Army Medal of Honor Roll including that of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker and William F. " Buffalo Bill " Cody.

Rigler officiated in 10 World Series, second only to Bill Klem's 18: 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930.