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 )

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 )

* 1868 – Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer ( d. 1917 )

In April 1917, the United States entered World War I and shortly afterwards, Scott, then 19 years old, joined the Army.

The song was written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott in 1917 and was part of the repertoire of music hall star and male impersonator Ella Shields.

" Being gassed ( mildly ) parenthesis with the new gas is no worse than catarrh or a bad cold ”, Gurney wrote in a letter to Marion Scott on 17 September 1917.

As early as 1917 Harvey Scott could write " That there is no definite affirmation, in the Old Testament of the doctrine of a future life, or personal immortality, is the general consensus of Biblical scholarship .".

The government announced it would name the field after Corporal Frank S. Scott on July 20, 1917 ; Scott was the first enlisted person to be killed in an aviation crash.

* William Scott ( astronomer and clergyman ) ( 1825 – 1917 ), Church of England clergyman ; colonial astronomer for New South Wales

The ( Original ) Church of God, Inc. came into being in 1917, when the Church of God in Chattanooga, Tennessee, led by Joseph L. Scott, separated from the Cleveland-based church.

At the outset of America ’ s involvement in World War I in 1917, the Carnegie Endowment trustees unanimously declared that “ the most effective means of promoting durable international peace is to prosecute the war against the Imperial Government of Germany to final victory for democracy .” In December 1918, Carnegie Endowment Secretary James Brown Scott and four other Endowment personnel, including James T. Shotwell, sailed with President Woodrow Wilson on the USS George Washington to join the peace talks in France.

His grandson, the eighth and fourth Baron, assumed in 1917 by Royal Licence his great-grandmother's surname of Scott in addition to that of Ellis.

Gardiner was married three times: first to Rosetta Jane Gardiner in 1912, then to Violet McEwen in 1917 and finally to Isabella ( Scott ) Christie in 1944.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald ' 17 ( 1917 )

* The Life And Letters Of Christopher Pearse Cranch: By His Daughter Lenora Cranch Scott ( 1917 )

Gen. James T. Dean ( 28 December 1917 ), Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott ( 2 January 1918 ), Brig.

Gen. William S. Scott ( 19 September 1917 ), Maj. Gen. C. P. Townsley ( 14 October 1917 ), Brig.

There, she studied under Scott Nearing and came to write a chapter in his book The Law of Social Revoluion entitled " The Russian Revolution of 1917 " ( 1926 ).

It was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers between 1917 and 1923, and was named after Francis Scott Key, author of The Star Spangled Banner.

Hugh Lenox Scott ( September 22, 1853 – April 30, 1934 ) was a post-Civil War West Point graduate who served as superintendent of West Point from 1906 to 1910, and Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1914 to 1917, including the first few months of American involvement in World War I.

* Scott Joplin was hospitalized in 1916 for schizophrenia aggravated by syphilis, and died there on April 1, 1917.

* This article also copies from Newspapers, 1775 – 1860 by Frank W. Scott ( 1917 ), which is also in the public domain

Lawrence " Laurie " Scott ( 23 April 1917 – 7 July 1999 ) was an English footballer.

* November 24-Scott Joplin, ragtime composer ( d. 1917 )