Ieoh Ming Pei ( born April 26, 1917 ), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture.

* 1917 – Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator ( d. 2005 )

Mao would publish his first article, " A Study of Physical Culture ", in New Youth in April 1917, in which he instructed all Chinese people to increase their physical strength in order to serve the revolutionary cause.

* Huang Yao, Chinese artist ( b. 1917 )

Yet another international event would have a large impact on not only Mao but also the Chinese intelligensia was the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

China had entered World War I on the side of the Allied Triple Entente in 1917 with the condition that all German spheres of influence, such as Shandong, would be returned to China ; although in that year, 140, 000 Chinese labourers ( as a part of the British army, the Chinese Labour Corps ) were sent to France.

Like in 1917 and 1918, he wrote two editorials for Xuesheng Zazhi: Students and Society ( 學生與社會 ) and The Students of 1918, those were significant in stimulating political consciousness among the young educated Chinese.

In an article originally published in New Youth in January 1917 titled " A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform ", Hu originally emphasized eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart in writing:

Sun saw the danger of this and returned to China in 1917 to advocate Chinese reunification.

It has been generally asserted that Chen, Li and the other Chinese radicals of the time ( including future chairman Mao Zedong ) formed the CCP out of diligent study of Marxist theories, inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917.

In 1917, Chen became a lecturer of Chinese Literature, and a Dean of Peking University （ 北京大学 ).

In order to expand the editorial department, New Youth was moved to Beijing at this time, and in February 1917, Chen used New Youth to promote science, democracy and modern literature, and to discourage the study of paleography and classical Chinese literature.

Scholars now tend to agree that modern Chinese literature did not erupt suddenly in the New Culture Movement ( 1917 – 23 ).

In 1917, the Old Chinese graph tā (, from nǚ, " woman ") was borrowed into the written language to specifically represent " she " by Liu Bannong.

Zhang Chunqiao ( pinyin: Zhāng Chūnqiáo ; Wade-Giles: Chang Ch ' un-ch ' iao ; IPA: ; 1917 Juye County, Heze, Shandong – April 21, 2005 ) was a prominent Chinese political theorist, writer, and politician.

It was first used in mainland China by the Kuomintang ( KMT, the Chinese Nationalist Party ) in 1917 and was made the official flag of the ROC in 1928.

The Nishihara Loans ( named after Nishihara Kamezo, Tokyo's representative in Beijing ) of 1917 and 1918, while aiding the Chinese government, put China still deeper into Japan's debt.

According to Xiang Lanxin, politics professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Chinese politburo system is itself inherited from the Bolsheviks in 1917 under Vladimir Lenin when he established it to command and control the October Revolution.

Language reforms followed revolutions more than once, such as the simplification of Chinese characters under Mao ( a consequence of the divergent orthographic choices of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ), or the simplification of the Russian alphabet after the 1917 revolution in Russia and consequent struggle against illiteracy, known in Soviet Russia as Likbez ( Likvidaciya Bezgramotnosti, liquidation of illiteracy ).

In addition to Indians, Syrians, Portuguese, Chinese and Africans came to the islands in waves between 1845 and 1917, and even after.

The contemporaneous historian Musa Sayrami ( 1836 – 1917 ) states that he was poisoned on May 30, 1877 in Korla by the former hakim ( local city ruler ) of Yarkand, Niyaz Hakim Beg, after the latter concluded a conspiracy agreement with the Qing ( Chinese ) forces in Jungaria.

However, Trotsky and Trotskyists, such as Harold Isaacs, in his The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution would argue that these were Popular Fronts, not united fronts, based upon the model employed by the Bolsheviks in 1917 and afterwards.

Liu Yongfu (; Vietnamese: Lưu Vĩnh Phúc ) ( 1837 – 1917 ) was a Chinese soldier of fortune and commander of the celebrated Black Flag Army.

He was made an Acting Major by the time of his first DSO on 4 June 1917, and in August 1917, Acting Lieutenant-Colonel.

* Ashton W. McWhorter, 1917 – 1919 ( Acting President )

He was 20 years old, and an Acting Captain in the ' A ' Battalion, Tank Corps, British Army during the First World War, and was awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions on 20 November 1917 at Marcoing, near Cambrai, France after his tank took a direct hit killing all but him and one member of his crew.

On 4 October 1917 near Zonnebeke, Belgium and by now an Acting Lieutenant Colonel in The Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ), British Army, Pugh was Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment and aged 36 years when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

In December 1917, he was promoted Acting Lieutenant Colonel.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

* 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

The death of Madero and Pino Suárez led to a national and international outcry which eventually paved the way for the fall of the Huerta Dictatorship, the triumph of the Mexican Revolution and the establishment of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico under maderista President Venustiano Carranza.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to head the U. S. Food Administration.

* 1917 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador ( d. 2003 )

* 1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general, President of Greece ( d. 1999 )

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for " peace without victory " in Europe.

* 1917 – John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States ( d. 1963 )

* 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.

The act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on March 2, 1917.

The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U. S. military.

The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U. S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed.

* 1917 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea ( d. 1979 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino politician, 10th President of the Philippines ( d. 1989 )

However, the Court did uphold some economic regulation such as state prohibition laws ( Mugler v. Kansas ), laws declaring maximum hours for mine workers ( Holden v. Hardy, 1898 ), laws declaring maximum hours for female workers ( Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ), President Wilson's intervention in a railroad strike ( Wilson v. New, 1917 ), as well as federal laws regulating narcotics ( United States v. Doremus, 1919 ).

General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, ( Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان قزلباش ; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980 ), was the senior Army Commander who was the third President of Pakistan, and the military dictator from 1969 until the dissolution of East-Pakistan, in December 16, 1971.

* September 5 – Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia ( b. 1917 )

** John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States ( assassinated ) ( b. 1917 )

** Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil ( b. 1917 )