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 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor ( d. 2009 )

* Pfohl, Ferdinand: 5 poems (" Moon-rondels, fantastic scenes from ' Pierrot Lunaire '") for voice and piano ( 1891 ); Marschalk, Max: 5 poems for voice and piano ( 1901 ); Vrieslander, Otto: 50 poems for voice and piano ( 46 in 1905, 4 more in 1911 ); Graener, Paul: 3 poems for voice and piano ( c. 1908 ); Marx, Joseph: 4 poems for voice and piano ( 1909 ; 1 of 4, " Valse de Chopin ", reset for voice, piano, and string quartet in 1917 ); Schoenberg, Arnold: 21 poems for speaking voice, piano, flute ( also piccolo ), clarinet ( also bass clarinet ), violin ( also viola ), and violoncello ( 1912 ); Kowalski, Max: 12 poems for voice and piano ( 1913 ); Prohaska, Carl: 6 poems for voice and piano ( 1920 ); Lothar, Mark: 1 poem for voice and piano ( 1921 ).

* Carl E. Schorske, German Social Democracy, 1905 – 1917: The Development of the Great Schism ( Harvard University Press, 1955 ).

For a decade ( 1907 – 1917 ) Winona was home to pioneer American composer Carl Ruggles.

* Murry Wilson ( 1917 – 1973 ), father of Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys

A poem by Bodenheim featured in the 1917 Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, which also included poems by such future luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens ' " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ".

Gott strafe England, illustration from Germany, The Next Republic ?, by Carl W. Ackerman, published in 1917 in the United States | US-unknown origin.

After attending the Kirchhain Volksschule and the Protestant Rektoratsschule, Leo Strauss was enrolled at the Gymnasium Philippinum ( affiliated with the University of Marburg ) in nearby Marburg ( from which Johannes Althusius and Carl J. Friedrich also graduated ) in 1912, graduating in 1917.

In 1846 his younger brother Carl Frans ( 1823 – 1917 ) joined his small workshop.

Laub also wrote folk song music and together with Carl Nielsen published En Snes danske Viser ( A Set of Danish Folk Songs ) ( 1917 ).

Those working on the syndicated newspaper panel after Ripley included Joe Campbell ( 1946 – 1956 ), Art Sloggatt ( 1917 – 1975 ), Clem Gretter ( 1941 – 1949 ), Carl Dorese, Bob Clarke ( 1943 – 1944 ), Stan Randall, Paul Frehm ( 1938 – 1978 ; he became the full time artist in 1949 ) and his brother Walter Frehm ( 1948 – 1989 ); Walter worked part time with his brother Paul and became a full time Ripley artist from 1978 – 1989.

* Fish, Carl Russell ( 1917 ).

Murry Gage Wilson ( July 2, 1917 – June 4, 1973 ) was an American musician and record producer, best remembered as the father of The Beach Boys members Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson, uncle of bandmate Mike Love and as a manager and music publisher for their band.

It was founded at a meeting taking place at Hammarby, the country house of Linnaeus outside Uppsala, on May 23, 1917, the 210th birthday of Carl Linnaeus.

With no phylogenetic analysis of this genus, species are placed into this genus as anatomically defined by Carl H. Eigenmann in 1917.

This genus is more or less defined as in 1917 by Carl H. Eigenmann.

* Constellation ( Fabergé egg ), one of two Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé in 1917

Carl Nicholas Karcher SMOM ( January 16, 1917 – January 11, 2008 ) was an American businessman, founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company CKE Restaurants, Inc.

* Soviet Policy in Public Finance, 1917 – 1928, by Gregory Y. Sokolnikov & Associates ; translated by Elena Varneck, edited by Lincoln Hutchinson & Carl C. Plehn.

* Sons of Yale: Here ` s to Good Old Yale Alternative title March Blue arranged by JL Lake ; Original Copyright: 1917 by Carl Fischer

Vladimir Lenin | Lenin, Ture Nerman and Carl Lindhagen in Stockholm April 1917.

Fredrik Ström was, together with Ture Nerman and Stockholm's mayor Carl Lindhagen, part of a small delegation of Swedish Communists who greeted Lenin during his short visit in Stockholm in April 1917.

As the chief magistrate of Stockholm, Carl Lindhagen, together with Ture Nerman and Fredrik Ström, was part of a small delegation that greeted Lenin during his short visit in Stockholm in April 1917.

Lenin, Ture Nerman and Carl Lindhagen in Stockholm April 1917.