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 )

Conan Doyle's article in the December 1920 issue of The Strand contained two higher resolution prints of the 1917 photographs, and sold out within days of publication.

By autumn 1917, however, these attempts at peaceful resolution had failed, and the power vacuum began to be filled by the paramilitary troops of the right and left.

The book contained a resolution, dated August 13, 1917, to print 15, 000 leaflets to be mailed to men who had passed exemption boards.

On August 1, 1917, the Senate passed a resolution containing the language of the amendment to be presented to the states for ratification.

The House of Representatives passed a revised resolution on December 17, 1917.

In December 1917 the name was changed to the Imperial War Museum after a resolution from the India and Dominions Committee of the museum.

On August 11, 1917, he introduced a War Aims resolution that called on the US to " declare definitely its strategic goals, to condemn the continuation of the war for the purposes of territorial annexation, and to demand that the Allies restate their peace terms immediately.

He remained in this position until October 31, 1917, when he was forced to resign after coming under fire for refusing to commit himself by endorsing a resolution passed by the Reichstag favoring peace without annexation or indemnities.

In December 1917, the AJC adopted a resolution calling for the " convening of a World Jewish Congress ", " as soon as peace is declared among the warring nations " in Europe.

From 1917 to 1931, Acton was also served by the Toronto Suburban Railway, which entered into a notable dispute over a crossing with a spur line of the Grand Trunk in the town, that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada for resolution.

In 1917, the Trades and Labour Congress ( TLC ) national convention in Toronto passed a resolution calling on provincial labour federations to establish a political party which would unite socialist and labour parties in the province and eventually form a national party.

In Summer 1917, these three parties passed a peace resolution providing for a peace through rapprochement without annexations and payments, as opposed to a peace through victory and annexations, as the political right was demanding.

The Supreme Army Command did not like this resolution, and in the negotiations from December 1917 to March 1918 imposed a peace by victory upon Russia.

In 1917 the Imperial War Conference passed a resolution regarding a future special Imperial Conference to readjust the relations of the component parts of the Empire.

Then the split came, and the Youth League was forced to leave the party when a majority ( 136 votes against 42 ) at the Social Democratic Party Congress in 1917, voted in favour of Brant's proposal and adopted a resolution which separated the then the Youth League from the Social Democratic Party SAP.

On November 15, 1917, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party adopted a resolution rejecting agreement with these parties, and proclaiming ' Kamenev and Zinoviev ' strikebreakers of the revolution.

In 1917 Norway's parliament ( the Storting ) passed a resolution to establish an institution for higher education and research based on the German handelshochschule model.

On March 26, 1917 the Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDRP ( b ) published a resolution " About the Provisional Government " since then the term, Red Guards, received the widest usage.

On April 14, 1917 the Moscow Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( Bolsheviks ) ( RSDLP ( b )) adopted a resolution for creation of its Red Guard.

Hillquit was a principal co-author of the resolution against the United States ' entry into World War One which was passed overwhelmingly both by an emergency Socialist Party convention held just after the April 6th, 1917, U. S. declaration of war and by a subsequent membership referendum.

This task was taken on by Eiichi Shibusawa, a prominent businessman, and following a resolution by the Diet in 1915, RIKEN came into existence in March 1917.

This resulted in the well-meaning but ineffective peace resolution of 19 July 1917.

In October 1917, after Columbia University passed a resolution that imposed a loyalty oath to the United States government upon the entire faculty and student body, the board of trustees fired Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department James McKeen Cattell for having sent a petition to three US congressmen, asking them not to support legislation for military conscription.