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 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

In France in 1917, Paul Langevin and his coworkers developed an ultrasonic submarine detector.

Six crowned representatives of the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov line include: Paul ( 1796 – 1801 ), Alexander I ( 1801 – 1825 ), Nicholas I ( 1825 – 55 ), Alexander II ( 1855 – 81 ), Alexander III ( 1881 – 94 ), and Nicholas II ( 1894 – 1917 ).

* Paul H. Gebhard ( 1917 – )

Paul IV's 1559 bull, Cum ex apostolatus officio, stipulated that a heretic cannot be elected pope, while Canon 188. 4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law provides that a cleric who publicly defects from the Catholic faith automatically loses any office he had held in the Church.

The structure of graphite was solved in 1916 by the related method of powder diffraction, which was developed by Peter Debye and Paul Scherrer and, independently, by Albert Hull in 1917.

* 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 ).

* Paul Sawyier ( 1865 – 1917 ) was a Kentucky artist and an American Impressionist

* 1917 — Paul Ehrenfest gives conditional principle a three dimensional space

The film was written and directed by Emmett J. Flynn, from an adaptation by Jules Furthman based on a 1917 one-act melodrama by Paul Dickey and Rol Cooper Megrue.

From 1917 to 1919, he served as secretary to Paul Claudel, the eminent poet and dramatist who was then the French ambassador to Brazil.

The high point came in 1917 when the four-masted, long Albert F. Paul was launched from the William G. Abbott shipyard.

From 1882 until 1917, St. Paul was the home of Frank Iams, the nation's largest importer of European draft horses.

He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.

Dean Martin ( born Dino Paul Crocetti ; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995 ) was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian.

In 1917, the family moved into an old house in Flushing, New York where Merton's brother, John Paul, was born on November 2, 1918.

From 1917 to 1920, Paul lived in exile with his father, Constantine I.

After Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff replaced the more ineffectual Erich von Falkenhayn at the General Staff in the summer of 1916, his hopes for American President Woodrow Wilson's mediation at the end of 1916 came to nothing, and, over Bethmann Hollweg's objections, Hindenburg and Ludendorff forced the adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare in March 1917, which led to the United States's entry into the war the next month.

She married again in 1988 to Paul Masterson ( 1917 – 1996 ).

Authors Paul Mason and William Jefferson say that he was born 12 January 1917 in Jabalpur, Central Provinces.

* Farm Houses Manor Houses Minor Chateaux Small Churches in Normandy and Brittany, The Architectural Book Publishing Company, Paul Wenzel and Maurice Krakow, 1917

** In contrast, the conservative popular historian Paul Johnson in A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980s ( 1983 ) was highly critical of his judgment.

The best-known are the builder of the Hermannsdenkmal, Ernst von Bandel ( 1871 ), Reich Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck ( 1895 ), and Reich President, Paul von Hindenburg ( 1917 ).