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 )

Three obtained commutations to long prison terms, but Apis and three comrades were executed by firing squad on 26 June 1917.

Three 20th century Danish authors have become Nobel Prize laureates in Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan ( joint recipients in 1917 ) and Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ( awarded 1944 ).

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

Three Russians, Iranov ( Sig Ruman ), Buljanov ( Felix Bressart ) and Kopalsky ( Alexander Granach ), are in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917.

which was set to music in 1917 by Charles Ives as part of his cycle Three Songs of the War.

* Novels 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer ( Townsend Ludington, ed.

Three months later, on April 6, 1917, the USPD was founded at a conference in Gotha, with Hugo Haase as the party's first chairman ; the Spartakusbund also merged into the newly founded party, but retained relative autonomy.

* Part of the title of the 1912 movie North of Fifty Three, remade in 1917

He was in that assignment in early 1917 in West Indian waters and had additional duty as Senior Aide on the Staff of Commander Squadron Three of the Patrol Force Atlantic Fleet.

Three prominent French “ aces ” were René Fonck, who became the top-scoring Allied pilot of World War I with 75 enemy aircraft shot down, Georges Guynemer ( killed in action in 1917 after gaining 54 victories ), and Charles Nungesser ( who shot down 43 enemy aircraft and survived the war, only to disappear attempting a transatlantic flight in 1927 ).

Three years from the school ’ s inception, the first two buildings were opened in August 1917 and have remained throughout the century.

On February 8, 1917, the 228th Battalion got its orders to proceed overseas and withdrew its teams from the OHA and the NHA, Three days later, NHA owners — at a meeting that did not include Livingstone — voted to suspend the Blueshirts franchise to keep the number of teams in the league even.

The Three Secrets of Fátima consist of a series of visions and prophecies allegedly given by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young Portuguese shepherds, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, starting on 13 May 1917.

* The Way Forward: Three Articles on Liberal Policy ( 1917 ) pamphlet

Three Lakeshore communities later developed into separate municipalities: Mimico ( 1911 Village / 1917 Town ), New Toronto ( 1913 Village / 1920 Town ), Long Branch ( 1930 Village ).

After the entry of the U. S. into World War I, Dawson served overseas as a first lieutenant with the Three Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry of the United States Army from 1917 until 1919.

* Three violin sonatas ( 1907 / 1917 / 1927 )

The influence of the latter is particularly evident in comparing Bauer's 1917 work Three Impressions for piano to Griffes's Roman Sketches published a year earlier: each is an impressionistic-style suite with a poem preceding each movement.

Řezníček's works include orchestral works ( five symphonies, suites, serenades, overtures ), a violin concerto ( 1922 ), operas ( Till Eulenspiegel ( 1902 ), Ritter Blaubart – A Fairy-Tale Opera in Three Acts ( composed 1915 – 1917 and recorded by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2002 ), Spiel oder Ernst ( 1930 )), chamber music ( the first of his four string quartets ( composed in 1921 ) received its world premiere recording from the Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna in 1996 ).

Three Black Pennys, which followed in 1917, chronicled the fictional lives of three generations of Pennsylvania ironmasters and cemented the author's style of dealing with upperclass characters through a floridly descriptive style he referred to as " aestheticism.

* The Three Black Pennys ( Knopf, 1917 )

His novel The Unholy Three ( 1917 ) was twice adapted for the screen, a silent version directed by Tod Browning in 1925 and a sound version directed by Jack Conway in 1930 ; both adaptations starred Lon Chaney.

* The Unholy Three ( 1917 ; rpt.