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 )

Sidney James ( 1891, Sheffield – 9 April 1917 ) was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town and Hartlepool United.

In 1917, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sidney Lee wrote that Marlowe was killed in a drunken fight.

* Sidney Sheldon ( 1917 – 2007 ), author

" Sidney Colvin, in his 1917 biography, pointed out that " the ode To Autumn [...] opens up no such far-reaching avenues to the mind and soul of the reader as the odes To a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, or On Melancholy, but in execution is more complete and faultless than any of them.

From 1917 to 1921, William studied at the Edinburgh Academy in Scotland, and from 1921 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he received his B. A.

* Sidney Nolan ( between 1917 and 1931 )

Amongst the artists who spent time there were Joy Hester ( 1920 – 1960 ) and, the internationally well-known painter Sidney Nolan ( 1917 – 1992 ), the best artist of the immediate postwar period, whose iconic Ned Kelly images are probably better known than the artist himself.

The original version of Clause IV, drafted by Sidney Webb in November 1917 ( the same month of the October Revolution in Russia ) and adopted by the party in 1918, read, in part 4:

Florida governors Park Trammell ( 1913 – 1917 ) and Sidney Catts ( 1917 – 1921 ) generally ignored the emigration of blacks to the North and its causes.

Sidney J. Catts Inauguration Brief film clip from 1917.

Australian aviator Frederick Sidney Cotton's experience with high level and low-temperature flying led Cotton in 1917 to develop the revolutionary new " Sidcot " suit, a flying suit which solved the problem pilots had in keeping warm in the cockpit.

On February 16, 1918 Brooks Field was named by the U. S. Army Signal Corps to honor San Antonio aviator Sidney Johnson Brooks, Jr. Cadet Brooks died on November 13, 1917 when his Curtiss JN-4 nosed down as he prepared to land after a training flight at Kelly Field, TX.

* 28 November – Sidney Nolan ( born 1917 ), painter

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.

Upon Vroman ’ s death in 1916, the store became a corporation, holding its first annual meeting on January 9, 1917 with George Howell as president elect, Allan David Sheldon as Vice President, and Alice Dilworth as Secretary-Treasurer.

He became a member of the Skull and Bones society at Yale in 1927, as were his brother-in-law Prescott Sheldon Bush ( S & B 1917 ); brothers Dr. John Mercer Walker, Sr. ( S & B 1931 ) and Louis Walker ( S & B 1936 ); and his nephew, the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush ( S & B 1947 ); and Bush's son ( therefore George's grand-nephew ), the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush ( S & B 1968 )

* 1917 – Barry Nelson, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Matt Christopher, American author ( d. 1997 )

* 1856 – Diamond Jim Brady, American financier ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1985 )

* 1917 – Dabbs Greer, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Lou Monte, American singer ( d. 1989 )

* 1917 – Jack Kirby, American writer and illustrator ( d. 1994 )

* 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress ( d. 2004 )

* 1917 – Marvin Miller, American labor activist

* 1917 – Bill Clements, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* Elmer, Robert P. ( Robert Potter ) ( 1917 ) American Archery ; a Vade Mecum of the Art of Shooting with the Long Bow Columbus, OH: National Archery Association of the United States

* 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot ( b. 1917 )

( Ten American Girls from History 1917 )

* 2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1917 )

* 1917 – John Fitch, American race car driver

* 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer ( d. 1996 )

* 1917 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor

* 2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor ( b. 1917 )

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.