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.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1917 – James Angleton, American CIA official ( d. 1987 )

* 1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1986 )

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Important early 20th century writers who studied the phenomenon of spirituality, and their works, include William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ), and Rudolph Otto, especially The Idea of the Holy ( 1917 ).

** James C. Murray, American politician ( b. 1917 )

** James Donald, Scottish actor ( b. 1917 )

** James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1917 )

* March 11 – James Kee, American politician ( b. 1917 )

* May 30 – James Harry Lacey, British World War II RAF Fighter pilot ( b. 1917 )

* James Alexander Murray ( 1864 – 1960 ), premier of New Brunswick for a part of 1917

* James C. Murray ( 1917 – 1999 ), United States Representative from Illinois

* nickname of James Harry Lacey ( 1917 – 1989 ), Royal Air Force fighter ace

November 2: Balfour Declaration 1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sends a letter to Lord Rothschild, President of the Zionist Federation, declaring his government would " view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ".

In the United States in 1917, James " Jim " Apperson's idleness ( in contrast to his hardworking brother ) incurs the great displeasure of his wealthy businessman father.

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

The name of the church was changed from the German St. Jakob to St. James in 1917 as a result of anti-German attitudes due to World War I.

* James P. Goodrich ( 1864 – 1940 ), Governor of Indiana, 1917 – 1921, born in Winchester and buried in Fountain Park Cemetery

It was farmland from 1813 until the 1970s, eventually some of it was owned by James J. Douglas from 1896 until his death in 1917.

James Store for 45 years, beginning in 1917, and with the exception of two years spent in military service, he continued in this capacity until his retirement.

* James Augustine McFaul ( 1850 – 1917 ), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton from 1894-1917.

Notable among them is Major Percy Nugent FitzPatrick, son of James Percy FitzPatrick, who was killed near Cambrai on 14 December 1917.

The sound and light of the exploding meteor were initially mistaken for an explosion in the powder magazine at West Winfield, and was compared by investigators FW Preston, EP Henderson and James R Randolph as comparable to with the Halifax explosion of 1917 in destructive power.

During the 20th century many theories were proposed including the planetesimal theory of Thomas Chamberlin and Forest Moulton ( 1901 ), tidal model of Jeans ( 1917 ), accretion model of Otto Schmidt ( 1944 ), protoplanet theory of William McCrea ( 1960 ) and finally capture theory of Michael Woolfson.

Dana and Collins accepted Rolfe's offer in 1916 and made several important films for Rolfe / Metro, notably The Girl Without a Soul and Blue Jeans ( both 1917 ).

* Blue Jeans ( 1917 Metro Pictures )

* Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten ( 1917 )

Blessed are the Peacemakers by George Bellows, The Masses, 1917.

Blessed are the Peacemakers by George Bellows, The Masses 1917

Cartoon by Art Young, first published in The Masses in 1917 and later reprinted in Ammon Hennacy's autobiography.

" Hand's decision in the 1917 Masses case influenced Zechariah Chafee's widely read book, Freedom of Speech ( 1920 ).

" In 1918, The Masses was forced to close due to charges under the Espionage Act of 1917.

Following passage of the Espionage Act of 1917, The Masses was suppressed by the U. S. government on the grounds that it was detrimental to the war effort.

Blessed are the Peacemakers ( 1917 ), The Masses

Cartoon by Art Young, first published in The Masses in 1917 and later reprinted in Ammon Hennacy's autobiography.

Political cartoon by Art Young, The Masses, 1917.

At issue in Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten was the federal Espionage Act of 1917, which prohibited citizens from counseling or advising violation of the law.

He is most famous for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917.

Political cartoon by Art Young, first published in The Masses in 1917.

The Masses January, 1917.