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 )

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 )

* 1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1917 )

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

The Gregorian Calendar was instituted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Romania accepted it in 1919 under king Ferdinand of Romania ( 1 November 1919 became 14 November 1919 ), Turkey in 1923 under Ataturk, and the last Orthodox country to accept the calendar was Greece also in 1923.

* 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino politician, 10th President of the Philippines ( d. 1989 )

* September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines ( b. 1917 )

* July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer and founder of the Zeppelin Company ( d. 1917 )

* Ferdinand Marcos ( 1917 – 1989 ), tenth president of the Philippines

* Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1838 – 1917 ), German airship mogul

* 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 ).

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos ( September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989 ) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

Ferdinand Edralin Marcos was born September 11, 1917, in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte to parents Mariano Marcos and Josefa Edralin.

* son: Ferdinand W. Roebling ( b. 1842, d. 1917 )

* Ferdinand Schörner, decorated as a Leutnant in December 1917, later a field marshal in World War II.

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( October 26, 1849 – August 3, 1917 ) was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations and to group theory.

* Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( 1849 – 1917 ), mathematician

* Schevill, Ferdinand, Karl Bitter – A Biography, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Illinois, 1917

Dragutin Dimitrijević ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић ; also known as Apis ( Апис ); August 17, 1876, Belgrade – June 11, 24, or 27, 1917 ) was a Serbian soldier and leader of the Black Hand group implicated with assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria in 1914.

* Ferdinand Tönnies ( 1855 – 1936 ), in 1917 by German emperor King Wilhelm II of Prussia

Princess Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise Reuss of Köstritz ( 22 August 1860 – 12 September 1917 ) was Tsaritsa of Bulgaria and the second wife of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria.

# Ferdinand Joseph Robidoux, Conservative ( 1911 – 1917 )

* Gen-Lt. Ferdinand graf von Zeppelin ( 1838 – 1917 ), aviator, inventor of the airship, and founder of Zeppelin Airship Company

* Georg Kaiser's 1917 play The Coral depicts a powerful industrialist whose male secretary is his exact double.

Johan Welhaven was the member of an accomplished family which included his sister socialite Maren Sars, the wife of theologian and biologist Michael Sars ( 1805 – 1869 ), and mother of historian, Ernst Sars ( 1835 – 1917 ), marine biologist Georg Ossian Sars ( 1837 – 1927 ) and mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen ( 1858 – 1907 ).

Georg Michaelis ( September 8, 1857 – July 24, 1936 ) was Chancellor of Germany for a few months in 1917.

* Regulski, Christoph: Die Reichskanzlerschaft von Georg Michaelis 1917: Deutschlands Entwicklung zur parlamentarisch-demokratischen Monarchie im Ersten Weltkrieg.

* Georg Brandes, 1917

Georg Friedrich Graf von Hertling ( 31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919 ) was a Bavarian politician who served as Minister-President of Bavaria 1912 – 1917 and then as Minister-President of Prussia and Chancellor of the German Empire from 1917 to 1918.

* October 26-Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( died 1917 ), German mathematician.

Hans Georg Conried, Jr. ( April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982 ) was an American comedian, character actor and voice actor best known for providing the voice of Captain Hook in Disney's version of Peter Pan and for his earlier work as Uncle Tonoose, on Danny Thomas's sitcom Make Room for Daddy.

He was born in 1917 in Baltimore to Edith Beryl ( Gildersleeve ) and Hans Georg Conried, Sr. His Connecticut-born mother was a descendant of Pilgrims, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, Austria.

* Georg Michaelis 1917

* 13 July 1917 Dr. Georg Michaelis replaces Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg as Chancellor of Germany.

* 31 October 1917 Michaelis resigns, replaced by Count Georg von Hertling

The company was founded in Ohio, USA in 1917 by Georg Jung, a German, and produced bandages right from the start.

A third German edition, edited by Georg Lasson, was published in 1917.

* 1910s: Poul ' Tist ' Nielsen ( 1910 ), Ivar Lykke ( 1911 ), Svend Aage Castella ( 1911 ), Kristian Gyldenstein ( 1911 ), Christian Morville ( 1912 ), Georg Brysting ( 1912 ), Alf Olsen ( 1917 ), Steen Steensen Blicher ( 1918 ), Valdemar Laursen ( 1918 )

* Georg Kaiser's 1917 play The Coral depicts a powerful industrialist whose male secretary is his exact double ; among the secretary's duties, he is occasionally required to impersonate his employer at public functions.

1967 ); Andrei Bely ( 1880-1934 ): Petersburg ( 1913 ); Guillaume Apollinaire ( 1880-1918 ): Alcools ( 1913 ); Georg Trakl ( 1887-1914 ): Poems ( 1913 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ), Sonnets to Orpheus ( 1922 ), Duino Elegies ( 1922 ); Gottfried Benn ( 1886-1956 ): Morgue and other Poems ( 1912 ); Luigi Pirandello ( 1867-1936 ): Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1921 ); D. H. Lawrence ( 1885-1930 ): Sons and Lovers ( 1913 ), The Rainbow ( 1915 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ): Tarr ( 1918 ); W. B. Yeats ( 1865-1939 ): The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), Wild Swans at Coole ( 1917 ); Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888-1953 ): Anna Christie ( 1920 ), The Emperor Jones ( 1920 ); Karel Čapek ( 1890-1938 ): R. U. R.

Werner Georg Emil Lucas ( 27 December 1917 – 24 October 1943 ) was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, born on December 27, 1917 in north Berlin, Germany.

* Paul Georg Christof von Krause 1917 – 1919