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 Monte, American singer ( d. 1989 )

* 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.

Wim Sonneveld ( 1917 – 1974 ), Ramses Shaffy ( 1933 – 2009 ), Liesbeth List, Herman van Veen.

In 1917 Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson, which today is known as Botanical Garden of TU Delft.

TU Delft botanical garden dates back to 1917, where Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson Jr., TU Delft graduate and assistant to Martinus Beijerinck.

* Theo van Doesburg ( 1883 – 1931 ), painter, designer, and writer ; published De Stijl, 1917 – 1931.

nl: Mexicaanse grondwet van 1917

Discovered in 1917 by Adriaan van Maanen, Van Maanen's star was the third white dwarf identified, after 40 Eridani B and Sirius B, and the first that was not a member of a multi-star system.

While searching for a companion to the large proper motion star Lalande 1299, in 1917 Dutch – American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen discovered a star with an even larger proper motion located a few arcminutes to the northeast.

Jansen was a founder member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ( the " South African Academy for Science and Art ") in 1909, of the Saamwerk-Unie (" Co-operation Union ") in 1917, of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (" Federation of Afrikaner Cultural Associations ") in 1929, and of the Voortrekkers ( the Afrikaner equivalent of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides ) in 1930, and was master of ceremonies at the laying of the foundation stone of the Voortrekker Monument in 1938 and at its dedication in 1949.

Universal suffrage eventually did come to be in the Netherlands in 1917, under the leadership of the liberal minority cabinet of Cort van der Linden.

In 1917 he published Dodo-studiën: naar aanleiding van de vondst van een gevelsteen met dodo-beeld van 1561 te Vere, an article about the study of the extinct Dodo.

Johann's second son Karl did have children, but none of his living descendants bears the name van Beethoven ( the last to bear that name, Karl Julius Maria van Beethoven, died in 1917 ).

-De Stijl ( Rietveld, Oud, van Doesburg with manifesto De Stijl / 1917 against the " Modern Baroque " of the Amsterdam School )

Frustrated with the academic environment, however, he abandoned the school after his father ’ s death in 1917 and began studying with artists Serge Pahnke ( 1875-1950 ) and Henri van Muyden ( 1860-s. d.

Florence Knoll Bassett ( born May 24, 1917 ) is an American architect and furniture designer who studied under Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen.

* Captain Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stuart ( 4 June 1917 – 25 June 1969 ), married Selina van Wijk and had issue.

On 29 March 1917 at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Sydney, Henry van der Sluice married an actress Dorothy ( Dot ) Claire Davis ; childless, they were divorced in May 1929.

* Van Maanen's Star is a white dwarf, discovered in 1917 by Adriaan van Maanen, only the second white dwarf discovered.

* van de Put, A. Henry Wallis, 1830 – 1916, Faenza, v ( 1917 ), pp. 33 – 8.

Gedenkschrift ter gelegenheid van het honderdjarig bestaan op 18 mei 1917.