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 )

In 1917 he submitted the now famous Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt, to the Society of Independent Artists exhibition only to have the piece rejected.

It was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who read it a few years before it was published in 1917.

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

Fountain was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, the exhibition of which shocked the art world in 1917.

Examples include Henry R. Towne's Science of management in the 1890s, Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management ( 1911 ), Frank and Lillian Gilbreth's Applied motion study ( 1917 ), and Henry L. Gantt's charts ( 1910s ).

In April 1922, Mitchell was seeing two men almost daily ; one was Berrien “ Red ” Upshaw, whom she is thought to have met in 1917 at a dance hosted by the parents of one of her friends, and the other, Upshaw's roommate and friend, John R. Marsh, a copy editor from Kentucky who worked for the Associated Press.

* Weiner, Douglas R. Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia ( 2000 ) 324pp ; covers 1917 to 1939.

* Rummel, R. J. ( 1996 ) Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917.

His Fountain, a urinal which he signed with the pseudonym " R. Mutt ", confounded the art world in 1917.

The sound and light of the exploding meteor were initially mistaken for an explosion in the powder magazine at West Winfield, and was compared by investigators FW Preston, EP Henderson and James R Randolph as comparable to with the Halifax explosion of 1917 in destructive power.

* John R. Ramsey ( 1862 – 1933 ), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1917 to 1921 .< font color =" blue ">( B )</ font >

Iaeger was incorporated in 1917 and named for Colonel William G. W. Iaeger, whose son, Dr. William R. Iaeger, had a plat of the present town made about the year 1885.

These were once more able to turn the tables, and by the spring of 1917 were causing very high casualties in the R. F. C.

* Green, J. R., A Short History of the English people, Macmillan & co, 1917.

The most famous of Duchamp's readymades was Fountain ( 1917 ), a standard urinal basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym " R. Mutt ", and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York ( it was rejected ).

The Fountain, was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, that shocked the art world in 1917.

The " maximum battleships ", also known as the " Tillman Battleships " were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 to the order of Senator " Pitchfork " Benjamin Tillman by the Bureau of Construction and Repair ( C & R ) of the United States Navy.

Eddie " Cleanhead " Vinson ( December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988 ) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R & B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.

* Pierce, R. V., The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, eighty-third edition ( World's Dispensary, 1917 ), available from Project Gutenberg

All this came to an end on July 16, 1917, however, when Lomax was fired along with six other faculty members as the result of a political battle between Governor James Ferguson and the University President, Dr. R. E. Vinson.

* 1917 – 18 William R. Inge The Philosophy of Plotinus, ISBN 1-59244-284-6

* December 7-George R. Gardiner, businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum ( born 1917 )

John R. Oishei ( 1886-1968 ) formed the Tri-Continental Corporation in 1917.