* 1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor ( d. 2012 )

In 1917, UC Regent Edward A. Dickson, the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore, Director of the Normal School, began working together to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second University of California campus, after Berkeley.

* July 8 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor ( b. 1917 )

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, FBA, FRSL ( 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012 ) was a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author.

* Ernest C. Kellogg ( 1911 – 1917 )

Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Star from October 1917 to April 1918.

* Ernest Lundeen, class of 1901, U. S. Representative from 1917 to 1919 and from 1933 to 1937.

** Ernest Lundeen ( 1933 – 1937 ); had previously served as a Republican Representative ( 1915 – 1917 ), also served in the Senate

Prout's hypothesis was an influence on Ernest Rutherford when he succeeded in " knocking " hydrogen nuclei out of nitrogen atoms with alpha particles in 1917, and thus concluded that perhaps the nuclei of all elements were made of such particles ( the hydrogen nucleus ), which in 1920 he suggested be named protons, from the suffix "- on " for particles, added to the stem of Prout's word " protyle.

The next year, his father's British dukedom was suspended under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 as a result of the Duke's service in the German army during the war, and Ernest Augustus ' title as Prince of the United Kingdom was suspended under the same Act.

* A large leopard seal attacked Thomas Orde-Lees ( 1877 – 1958 ), a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 – 1917 when the expedition was camping on the sea ice.

The ballet premiered on Friday, May 18th, 1917 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with costumes and sets designed by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Léonide Massine ( who danced ), and the orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet.

* January 1917 – Ernest and Avis Everhard infiltrate the Iron-Heel as one of their many agents-provocateurs

It also displays original Scouting paintings by Ernest Stafford Carlos ( 1883 – 1917 ); the highlight of which is The Pathfinder.

* Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe ( 1856 – 1917 )

* Stanley Ernest Greenhill, 2nd Baron Greenhill ( 1917 – 1989 )

* Ernest Shears ( 1849 – 1917 ), Anglican clergyman in South Africa

* Ernest Lundeen – U. S. Representative from Minnesota, 1917 – 1919 and 1933 – 1937, U. S. Senator from Minnesota, 1937 – 1940

Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe ( 25 November 1856 – 29 April 1917 ), born Ernest William Denison, was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage.

In 2009, Roberts edited the sixth edition of Satow's Diplomatic Practice, originally written in 1917 by Sir Ernest Satow and widely used in embassies throughout the world ( Oxford University Press: 2009 ; ISBN 978-0-19-955927-5 ).

Thomas Ernest Hulme ( 16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917 ) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism.

Robert Ernest Vernède ( 1875-9 April 1917 ) was an English poet and writer, now remembered as a war poet.

In 1917 she married psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, but she died the following year at the age of 26.

His son, Paul Hartley Raney, a fighter pilot in the First World War, was killed in action, shot down over Roulers, Belgium ( then German territory ) on August 21, 1917.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone.

After the Globes closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards, initially written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnot who invented the name " Beachcomber ".

The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

Each series was set in a different period of British history, beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917, and comprised six half-hour episodes.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

The Psovoi was popular with the Tsars before the 1917 revolution.

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.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

A sham trial before a military tribunal in Salonika was held in May 1917 for Apis and others.