* 1817 – Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet ( d. 1848 )

* 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright ( d. 1875 )

* 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher ( d. 1901 )

* Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ( 1817 – 1875 ), poet

** Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish poet ( born 1817 )

* September 24 – Branwell Brontë, painter and poet, brother of novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne ( b. 1817 )

* June 8 – Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish poet, feminist and culture personality ( d. 1817 )

The second major variation is the song " Wenn alle untreu werden " ( German: " If everyone becomes unfaithful ") better known as " Das Treuelied ", which was written by the poet Max von Schenkendorf ( 1783 – 1817 ) and used exactly the same melody as the Wilhelmus.

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

* Samuel Morison Brown, chemist, poet and essayist, 1817 – 1856

* Bloodgood Cutter ( 1817 – 1906 ), poet

* August 24 – Gunnar Wennerberg, poet, politician and composer ( b. 1817 )

* October 10-Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, novelist and dramatist ( born 1817 )

Gurucharan was influenced by Debendranath Tagore ( 1817 – 1905 ), father of the Nobel poet, Rabindranath Tagore.

Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh ( 31 May 1817 – 7 April 1875 ) was a German revolutionary poet.

* Georg Herwegh, poet, revolutionist ( 1817 – 1875 )

Táhirih ( Arabic: طاهره ‎ " The Pure One ") or Qurratu ' l -` Ayn ( Arabic: قرة العين ‎ " Solace / Consolation of the Eyes ") are both titles of Fátimih Baraghání ( 1814 or 1817 – August 16 – 27, 1852 ), an influential poet and theologian of the Bábí Faith in Iran.

The doctrines of Aleksey Khomyakov, Ivan Kireevsky ( 1806 – 56 ), Konstantin Aksakov ( 1817 – 60 ) and other Slavophiles had a deep impact on Russian culture, including the Russian Revival school of architecture, The Five of Russian composers, the novelist Nikolai Gogol, the poet Fyodor Tyutchev, the lexicographer Vladimir Dahl, and others.

** Juan Meléndez Valdés ( 1754 – 1817 ), Spanish poet

) and of the poet Zrinyi ( 1817, 2 vols.

Patrick Branwell Brontë (; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848 ) was a painter, and writer and poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

* Herbert Knowles ( 1798 – 1817 ), English poet

Herbert Knowles ( 1798 – 1817 ) was an English poet.

* 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher ( d. 1862 )

* May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher ( b. 1817 )

* George Henry Lewes ( 1817 – 1878 ), British philosopher

Other university professors included such giants of the science world as the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1806 – 07 ), the biologist Karl Ernst von Baer ( 1817 – 34 ), the mathematician Carl Gustav Jacobi ( 1829 – 42 ), the mineralogist Franz Ernst Neumann ( 1828 – 76 ) and the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz ( 1849 – 55 ).

Devendranath Tagore (, Debendronath Ţhakur ) ( 15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905 ) was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj (“ Society of Brahmā ,” also translated as “ Society of God ”), which purged the Hindu religion and way of life of many abuses.

* Moritz Carrière ( 1817 – 1895 ), German philosopher and historian

The society flourished during the period of 1836 – 1860 in the Boston area and had some prominent and influential members including author and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ), poet Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 1892 ), and writer Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 62 ).

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ; was an American author, development critic, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden, on simple living amongst nature, and Civil Disobedience.

Moritz Carrière ( March 5, 1817 in Griedel near Darmstadt, Germany – January 19, 1895 in Munich ) was a German philosopher and historian.

Ramón María de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio ( September 24, 1817 – February 11, 1901 ), known as Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish realist poet and philosopher, was born at Navia ( Asturias ) on September 24, 1817.

Tom Taylor ( 19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880 ) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine.

Johannes Scherr ( October 3, 1817 – November 21, 1886 ), was a German-born novelist and literary critic most of whose working life was spent in Switzerland.

Saint-René Taillandier ( 16 December 1817 – 22 February 1879 ) was a French writer and critic.

Francesco de Sanctis ( March 28, 1817 – December 29, 1883 ) was an Italian literary critic, considered one of the most important scholars of Italian language and literature in the 19th century.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov () ( 10 April 1817, Novo-Aksakov, Orenburg Governorate – 19 December 1860, Zakynthos, US of the Ionian Islands ) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles.

Cadmium ( Latin cadmia, Greek καδμεία meaning " calamine ", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the Greek mythological character, Κάδμος Cadmus, the founder of Thebes ) was discovered simultaneously in 1817 by Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in zinc carbonate.

* Samuel H. Huntington ( 1765 – 1817 ), American jurist, Governor of Ohio

* December 14 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French politician ( d. 1817 )

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ( December 14, 1739 – August 7, 1817 ) was a French writer, economist, and government official.

Built by Samuel May in 1817, the house was utilized by the Confederate forces as a recruiting station during the American Civil War.

Thomas Fitch eventually sold a large parcel of property to William Samuel Flemming Sr. in 1817.

Samuel B. Watkins was reported to be the first settler in the area around 1817.

Samuel W. Huckins, born in 1817, settled on the land about 1870.

Pioneer Samuel Danford settled in the Summerfield vicinity in 1817 ; his farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Samuel Steel built a sawmill at Jenner Crossroads in 1817 ; John Shopwood opened a hotel in 1825, and Samuel Elder opened the first store in 1836 Other early industry in the township included a sawmill on Quemahoning Creek built about 1813 by Moses Fream and a small woolen mill, built in 1817 by William Dalley, enlarged by Owen and William Morgan later into a small settlement known as Morgantown.

* 1817: An Account of the Arrest and Imprisonment of Samuel Bamford, Middleton, on Suspicion of High Treason

Samuel Hamilton Walker ( 1817 – 1847 )

Besides editions of the works of William Shakespeare, James Beattie, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Warton, Alexander Pope, Edward Gibbon, and Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, he published A General Biographical Dictionary in 32 volumes ( 1812 – 1817 ); a Glossary to Shakspeare ( 1807 ); an edition of George Steevens's Shakespeare ( 1809 ); and the British Essayists, beginning with the Tatler and ending with the Observer, with biographical and historical prefaces and a general index.

Marrying Elizabeth Gillespie in 1810, they had four children ; Rebecca Elizabeth ( 1813 ), Elizabeth Delsey ( 1817 ), Isabella Anne ( 1820 ), and Samuel Gllespie ( 1822 ).

* Samuel Smith ( Upper Canada politician ) ( 1756 – 1826 ), American-born Canadian politician ; Administrator of Upper Canada, 1817 – 1818

* Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ( 1739 – 1817 ), entrepreneur

Lord Eversley married Emma Laura ( d. 1857 ), daughter of Samuel Whitbread and Lady Elizabeth Grey, in 1817.

Samuel H. Huntington ( October 4, 1765 – June 8, 1817 ) was an American jurist who was the third Governor of Ohio from 1808 to 1810.

* December 14-Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist ( died 1817 )