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.

* 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 )

* July 11 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer ( b. 1917 )

* Helen Forrest ( 1917 – 1999 ), singer

On March 23, 1917, less than three months after leaving office, his wife Helen died after 43 years of marriage.

Early examples include The Adventures of Kathlyn in 1913 and The Hazards of Helen, which ran from 1914 to 1917.

* Helen Sanborn, Anne of Brittany, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard ( Boston, MA ), 1917.

When World War I broke out they returned to Australia, where their daughters Aileen and Helen were born in 1915 and 1917.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Helen Suzman, DBE ( 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009 ) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.

Helen Suzman, a lifelong citizen of South Africa, was born as Helen Gavronsky in 1917 to Jewish Lithuanian immigrants.

He was twice married ; his first marriage, in 1917, to the poet Helen Dircks, ended in divorce.

One story has it she had gotten into the Essanay studios and waited in line to be an extra with Helen Ferguson: in an interview with Kevin Brownlow many years later Ferguson told a story that substantially confirmed many details of the claim, though it is not certain if she was referring to Moore's stints as a background extra ( if she really was one ) or to her film test there prior to her departure for Hollywood in November 1917.

Helen Suzman, stateswoman ( 1917 – 2009 )

On April 7, 1917, it was produced with the following cast: Nigel Playfair, Helen Haye, Peggy Kurton, Martin Lewis, Dion Boucicault and Bertram Siems at the New Theatre, London.

Helen Forrest ( April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999 ) was one of the most popular female vocalists during America's big band Swing Era.

She was born Helen Fogel to a Jewish family in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1917.

) Day was replaced in the Broadway production by Helen Shipman, who had previously starred in the 1917 Broadway musical Oh, Boy!

In 1917 Helen and her family went into exile a second time as a result of her father not supporting the Allies in World War I.

The Hazards of Helen is an American adventure film serial ( or possibly a film series ) of 119 twelve minute episodes released over a span of slightly more than two years by the Kalem Company between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917.

Gibson performed in The Hazards of Helen for 69 episodes until the series ended in February 1917, after which Kalem tried producing another serial starring role for her, the Daughter of Daring.

* The Money Mill ( 1917 ) .... Helen Ogden

Blake was born at 319 Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland to former slaves John Sumner Blake ( 1838 – 1917 ) and Emily " Emma " Johnstone ( 1861 – 1917 ).

* John Forrest ( rugby union ) ( 1917 – 1942 ), Scottish international rugby union player

* Forrest William Brown 1915 to 1917.