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 – 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 )

* Sid Barron ( 1917 – 2006 ), Canadian editorial cartoonist

* My Fighting Gentleman ... aka A Son of Battle ( USA ) ( 1917 ) ( as Sid Algier ) .... Jim

Sidney " Sid " Gordon ( August 13, 1917 – June 17, 1975 ), known as " Sid ," was a stocky, powerfully built American right-handed Major League Baseball outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman.

* Cleopatra ( 1917 film ), an American film directed by J. Gordon Edwards

Among the more than two dozen exhibitors who attended the first meeting held in New York on April 25, 1917, were Frederick Dahnken of the Turner and Dahnken Circuit in San Francisco, Harry O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, Samuel Roxy Rothafel of New York, Earl H. Hulsey of Dallas and Nathan H. Gordon of Boston.

In November 1917, while York's application was considered, he was drafted and began his army service at Camp Gordon in Georgia.

* Lin Gordon ( 1917 – 2011 ), Australian politician

The Gordon family was prominent locally and Ida Gordon ( 1854 – 1946 ) was one of two women appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1917.

Malcolm K. Gordon ( January 10, 1868 – November 13, 1964 ) was an ice hockey coach at St. Paul's School from 1888 to 1917.

Robert Gordon Robertson, ( born May 19, 1917 ) was Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from November 15, 1953 to July 12, 1963 who, having been sworn in at the age of 36, remains the youngest person to ever hold the office.

Joseph Gordon ( Joe ) Dobson ( January 20, 1917 – June 23, 1994 ), nicknamed " Burrhead ," was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played with the Cleveland Indians ( 1939 – 40 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1941 – 43, 1946 – 50, 1954 ) and Chicago White Sox ( 1951 – 53 ).

* Thomas Gordon Walker ( 1849 – 1917 ), British Indian civil servant

* James Leonard T. Gordon ( 1917 – 1967 ), American-Filipino politician

The influential theatre designer and artist Gordon Craig lived in the Villa Raggio, next door to Beerbohm, from 1917 to 1928.

Wing Commander Hugh Gordon Malcolm VC ( 2 May 1917 – 4 December 1942 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Fort Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established in 1917.

In 1917 Sir William Tritton had developed the Medium Mark A Whippet without involving his former co-worker Walter Gordon Wilson.

* Robert Gordon ( footballer ) ( c. 1917 – 1940 ), British footballer and soldier

Lucy Duff Gordon is also remembered as a survivor of the sinking of Titanic in 1912, and as the losing party in the precedent-setting 1917 contract law case of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, in which Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo wrote the opinion for New York's highest court, the New York Court of Appeals.

Australian rules footballer Gordon Rattray, who played his football with the Fitzroy Football Club between 1917 and 1928, is credited as the first player to use the torpedo punt.

He gained pre-selection for the Legislative Assembly seat of Albury in 1916 but the elections were deferred until 1917, when he was elected as the Nationalist Party member for Gordon in 1917, which he held to 1935, except during the period of proportional representation ( 1920 – 1927 ) when he was a member for Ryde.

From 1904 to 1917, he represented Gordon.