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 )

** Carson McCullers, American writer ( b. 1917 ) ( brain hemorrhage )

* July 1917 – Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio

* Sir Edward Carson, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Eric Geddes – First Lord of the Admiralty

In 1917, a school Cross Country Team composed of William Harrison, Henry Eiler, Royal Bouschor, Walter Long, Theodore Stark, Harry McKenzie, Kermit Davis, and Roy Carson was organized and competed in an outdoor run with the Men ’ s Department of the Duluth Y. M. C. A.

On August 28, 1917, while driving near Ossining, New York in the company of her co-worker and fiance, screenwriter Daniel Carson Goodman, the brakes on La Badie ’ s car failed and the vehicle plunged down a hill, overturning at the bottom.

Carson McCullers ( February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967 ) was an American writer.

She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917.

* Carson McCullers ( 1917 – 1967 ), writer.

* July 1917 – Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio

A possible connection between < span lang =" fr "> Frère Jacques </ span > and the 17th century lithotomist < span lang =" fr "> Frère Jacques Beaulieu </ span > ( also known as < span lang =" fr "> Frère Jacques Baulot </ span >< ref >< span lang =" fr "> Un célèbre lithotomiste franc-comtois: Jacques Baulot dit Frère Jacques ( 1651-1720 ), E. Bourdin, Besançon, 1917 </ span ></ ref >), as claimed by Irvine Loudon and many others, was explored by J. P. Ganem and C. C. Carson < ref >< span lang =" fr "> Frère Jacques Beaulieu </ span >: from rogue lithotomist to nursery rhyme character, Ganem JP, Carson CC, J Urol.

* 1917 – Barry Nelson, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Matt Christopher, American author ( d. 1997 )

* 1856 – Diamond Jim Brady, American financier ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1985 )

* 1917 – Dabbs Greer, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Lou Monte, American singer ( d. 1989 )

* 1917 – Jack Kirby, American writer and illustrator ( d. 1994 )

* 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress ( d. 2004 )

* 1917 – Marvin Miller, American labor activist

* 1917 – Bill Clements, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* Elmer, Robert P. ( Robert Potter ) ( 1917 ) American Archery ; a Vade Mecum of the Art of Shooting with the Long Bow Columbus, OH: National Archery Association of the United States

* 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot ( b. 1917 )

( Ten American Girls from History 1917 )

* 2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1917 )

* 1917 – John Fitch, American race car driver

* 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer ( d. 1996 )

* 1917 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor

* 2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor ( b. 1917 )

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.