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 – Lou van Burg, Dutch singer and game show host ( d. 1986 )

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

* 1989 – Lou Monte, Italian-American singer ( b. 1917 )

* 1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist ( d. 1977 )

* Fannie Lou Hamer ( civil rights activist, 1917 – 1977 )

Louis " Lou " Boudreau ( July 17, 1917 – August 10, 2001 ) was an American Major League Baseball player and manager.

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.

The American composer Lou Harrison ( 1917 – 2003 ) played and composed for the instrument.

Fannie Lou Hamer ( born Fannie Lou Townsend ; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977 ) was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader.

Lou Monte ( born Louis Scaglione, April 2, 1917 – June 12, 1989 ) was an Italian American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Records and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

* La rondine, libretto by Giuseppe Adami ( premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 27 March 1917 )

The companies Dole and Del Monte began growing pineapple on the island of Oahu in 1901 and 1917, respectively.

Apart from Massenet, composers whose works had their first performances at Monte Carlo included: Saint-Saëns ( Hélène, 1904 ); Mascagni ( Amica, 1905 ); and Puccini ( La rondine, 1917 ).

Monaco-Ville ( the ancient fortified city ) and Monaco's well-known area Monte Carlo are districts of a continuous urban zone, not distinct cities, though they were three separate municipalities ( communes ) until 1917.

In the hilltop enclave of Monte Estoril ( situated between Estoril and Cascais ), is the Verdades-Faria Museum, built in 1917 by Jorge O ' Neil.

At the beginning of Italian participation in World War I, he was a Lieutenant Colonel ( Tenente Colonnello ); he rose to the rank of General following his handling of the capture of Monte Sabotino in May 1916 and by the late months of 1917 ( mostly thanks to his Masonic contacts, including his superior, General Capello ) was named as Vice Chief-of-Staff ( Sottocapo di Stato Maggiore ) despite being one of the main leaders responsible for the disaster during the Battle of Caporetto on 24 October 1917.

By 1914 he had joined the Ordo Templi Orientis and attended their ' non-national ' conference in Monte Verità, Ascona in 1917, where he also set up workshops popularizing his ideas.

Apart from Massenet, composers whose works had their first performances at Monte Carlo included: Saint-Saëns ( Hélène, 1904 ); Mascagni ( Amica, 1905 ); and Puccini ( La rondine, 1917 ).

He saw frontline service in the Dolomites at Monte Forno, Mont Sief, and Monte Maletta from May, 1916 to 17 November 1917.

Kenneth Henry Downing ( 5 December, 1917 in Chesterton, Staffordshire-3 May, 2004 in Monte Carlo ) was a racing driver from England.

** Mons ; Marne 1914, 18 ; Aisne 1914, 18 ; Armentieres 1914 ; Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18 ; Hill 60 ; Loos ; Somme 1916, 18 ; Arras 1917, 18 ; Cambrai 1917, 18 ; Lys ; Tardenois ; Selle ; Valenciennes ; Piave ; Vittoria Veneto ; Doiran 1917 ; Suvla ; Gallipoli 1915 ; Norway 1940 ; Dunkirk ; St Valery en Caux ; Normandy Landing ; Odon ; Fontenay le Pesnil ; Schaddenhof ; NW Europe 1940, 44 – 45 ; Keren ; Gazala ; El Alamein ; Mareth ; Akarit ; Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943 ; Sicily 1943 ; Minturno ; Anzio ; Monte Ceco ; Sittang 1942, 45 ; Pegu 1942 ; Defence of Sinweya ; Imphal ; Meiktila ; Burma 1942 – 45

Exhibited: Del Monte Art Gallery before 1914 ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( solos in 1915, 1917, 1918 and group show in 1929 ); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932.

Written from 1917 to 1925, L ' enfant et les sortilèges was first performed in Monte Carlo in 1925 under the baton of Victor de Sabata.

It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo ( or the Théâtre du Casino ) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

Reuss held an " Anational Congress for Organising the Reconstruction of Society on Practical Cooperative Lines " at Monte Verità August 15 – 25, 1917.

In an undated letter to Crowley ( received in 1917 ), Reuss reported exitedly that he had read The Message of the Master Therion to a gathering at Monte Verità, and that he was translating The Book of the Law into German.