Year (''' MCMXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday
"Calendar in year 1917 (Russia)" (Julian calendar), webpage:
Julian-1917 (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian).
of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 2 - The Royal Bank Of Canada takes over Quebec Bank .
- January 11 - Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ ) Due to German sabotage, leading to the U.S. involvement in World War I .
- kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
- Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
- January 25
- ---The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million
- ---Anti- Prostitution drive in San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7000 people, 20000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, an outspoken foe of prostitution, 300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration explaining they had been forced into the practice by poverty. When Smith asked if they would take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laughed derisively, which lost them public sympathy. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter {Link without Title}
- January 26 - The sea defences at the English village of Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable
- January 28 - The United States ends search for Pancho Villa
- January 30 - Pershing 's troops in Mexico begin to withdraw to USA. They reach Columbus, Ohio February 5
- announces its U-boat s will engage in unrestricted Submarine warfare.
- January 2 - Vera Zorina , German dancer and actress (d. 2003 )
- January 3 - Roger W. Straus, Jr. , American publisher (d. 2004 )
- January 5 - Jane Wyman , American actress
- January 6 - Koo Chen-fu , Chinese negotiator (d. 2005 )
- January 10 - Jerry Wexler , American record producer
- January 12 - Jimmy Skinner , Detroit Red Wings head coach (d. 2007 )
- January 19
- --- John Raitt , American actor and singer (d. 2005 )
- --- Graham Higman , British mathematician
- January 24 - Ernest Borgnine , American actor
- January 25 - Ilya Prigogine , Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (d. 2003 )
- January 26 - William Verity Jr. , American politician (d. 2007 )
- February 1 - James Harry Lacey , a.k.a Squadron Leader James "Ginger" Lacey DFM & Bar, the top scoring RAF fighter pilot during the Battle Of Britain (d. 1989 )
- February 2 - Đỗ Mười , Vietnamese leader
- February 4
- --- Yahya Khan , President Of Pakistan (d. 1980 )
- --- Abdur Rahman Badawi , Egyptian Existentialist philosopher (d. 2002 )
- February 6 - Zsa Zsa Gabor , Hungarian-born actress
- February 11 - Sidney Sheldon , American author (d. 2007 )
- February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman , American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry
- February 17 - Joseph Conombo , Prime Minister Of Upper Volta
- February 18 - Tuulikki Pietilä , Finnish artist
- February 19 - Carson McCullers , American author (d. 1967 )
- February 25 - Anthony Burgess , English author (d. 1993 )
- February 27 - John Connally , Governor of Texas (d. 1993 )
- February 28 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández , President Of El Salvador (d. 2003 )
- March 1
- --- Harry Caray , baseball broadcaster (d. 1998 )
- --- Robert Lowell , American poet (d. 1977 )
- March 2
- --- Desi Arnaz , Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician (d. 1986 )
- --- John Gardner (composer) , British composer
- --- Laurie Baker , English architect (d. 2007 )
- March 4 - Clyde McCullough , American baseball catcher (d. 1982 )
- March 5 - Raymond P. Shafer , Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2006 )
- March 12 - Googie Withers , British actress
- March 14 - John McCallum , Australian actor
- March 16 - Samael Aun Weor , Columbian writer (d. 1977 )
- March 19 - Dinu Lipatti , Romanian pianist (d. 1950 )
- March 20 - Vera Lynn , English actress and singer
- March 22 - Paul Rogers (actor) , English actor
- March 24 - John Kendrew , British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (d. 1997 )
- March 26 - Rufus Thomas , American singer (d. 2001 )
- March 27 - Cyrus Vance , American politician (d. 2002 )
- April 1 - Sydney Newman , Canadian-born television producer (d. 1997 )
- April 2 - Dabbs Greer , American actor (d. 2007 )
- April 5 - Robert Bloch , American writer (d. 1994 )
- April 10 - Robert B. Woodward , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- April 12 - Helen Forrest , American jazz singer (d. 1999 )
- April 14 - Marvin Miller , baseball executive
- April 15 - James Kee , American politician (d. 1989 )
- April 17 - Bill Clements , Governor of Texas
- April 22 - Yvette Chauviré , French ballerina
- April 25 - Ella Fitzgerald , American jazz singer (d. 1996 )
- April 26 - Virgil Trucks , baseball player
- April 30 - Bea Wain , American singer
- May 1 - Fyodor Khitruk , Russian animator
- May 3 - Kiro Gligorov , President Of The Republic Of Macedonia
- May 8 - John Anderson, Jr. , American politician
- May 12 - Frank Clair , Canadian football coach (d. 2005 )
- May 14 - Lou Harrison , American composer (d. 2003 )
- May 16
- --- George Gaynes , Finnish-born actor
- --- James C. Murray , American politician (d. 1999 )
- May 20 - Bergur Sigurbjörnsson , Icelandic politician (d. 2005 )
- May 21 - Raymond Burr , Canadian actor (d. 1993 )
- May 22 - Georg Tintner , Austrian conductor (d. 1999 )
- May 25 - Theodore Hesburgh , American priest and educator
- May 28 - Papa John Creech , American fiddler (d. 1994 )
- May 29 - John F. Kennedy , President Of The United States (d. 1963 )
- June 1 - William S. Knowles , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 7 - Dean Martin , American actor (d. 1995 )
- June 10 - Eric Hobsbawm , British historian
- June 10 - Ruari McLean , British typographer (d. 2006 )
- June 15 - John Bennett Fenn , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 15 - Lash La Rue , American cowboy actor (d. 1996 )
- June 16
- --- Irving Penn , American photographer
- --- Katharine Graham , American publisher (d. 2001 )
- June 17
- --- Ben Bubar , American presidential candidate. (d. 1994 )
- --- Atle Selberg , Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007 )
- June 30 - Lena Horne , American singer
- July 1 - Humphry Osmond , British psychiatrist (d. 2004 )
- July 4 - Manolete , Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947 )
- July 7 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández , President Of El Salvador (d. 2003 )
- July 10
- --- Don Herbert , American television personality (d. 2007 )
- --- Reg Smythe , British cartoonist (d. 1998 )
- July 16 - William Woodson , American voice actor
- July 17
- --- Phyllis Diller , American comedian
- --- Red Sovine , American country & folk singer & songwriter (d. 1980 )
- July 18 - Henri Salvador , French singer
- July 19 - William Scranton , American politician
- August 11 - Dik Browne , American Cartoonist (d. 1989 )
- August 15
- --- Jack Lynch , President Of Ireland (d. 1999 )
- --- Oscar Romero , El Salvador Roman catholic Archbishop (d. 1980 )
- August 18 - Caspar Weinberger , United States Secretary Of Defense (d. 2006 )
- August 22 - John Lee Hooker , American musician (d. 2001 )
- August 28 - Jack Kirby , American comic book artist (d. 1994 )
- August 29 - Isabel Sanford , American actress (d. 2004 )
- August 30 - Denis Healey , British author and politician
- September 3 - Anthony Robert Klitz , British artist (d 2000 )
- September 6 - Philipp Von Boeselager , German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler
- September 7 - John Cornforth , Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 10 - Miguel Serrano , Chilean diplomat, explorer, and journalist
- September 11
- --- Herbert Lom , Czech-born actor
- --- Ferdinand Marcos , President Of The Philippines (d. 1989 )
- September 13 - Robert Ward , American composer (d. 1994 )
- September 15 - Shanul Haq Haqqee , Pakistani poet, author, lexicographer (d. 2005 )
- September 20 - Red Auerbach , American basketball coach and official (d. 2006 )
- September 25 - Johnny Sain , baseball player (d. 2006 )
- September 27 - Louis Auchincloss , American novelist
- October 2 - Christian De Duve , English-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- October 7 - June Allyson , American actress (d. 2006 )
- October 8
- --- Danny Murtaugh , baseball player and manager (d. 1976 )
- --- Rodney Robert Porter , English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- October 10 - Thelonious Monk , American jazz pianist (d. 1982 )
- October 15
- --- Jan Miner , American actress (d. 2004 )
- --- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , American historian and political commentator (d. 2007 )
- October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie , American musician (d. 1993 )
- October 22 - Joan Fontaine , British-born actress
- October 30 - Maurice Trintignant , French race car driver (d. 2005 )
- October 31 - Thomas Hill , Canadian actor
- November 11 - Madeleine Damerment , French World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- November 18 - Pedro Infante , Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957 )
- November 19 - Indira Gandhi , Prime Minister Of India (d. 1984 )
- November 20 - Robert Byrd , U.S. Senator from West Virginia
- November 22 - Andrew Huxley , English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- December 6 - Kamal Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977 )
- December 9 - James Rainwater , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
- December 10 - Sultan Yahya Petra , King of Malaysia (d. 1979 )
- December 16 - Arthur C. Clarke , British/Sri Lankan science-fiction author
- December 20 - David Bohm , American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992 )
- December 21 - Heinrich Böll , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985 )
- December 22 - Gene Rayburn , American television personality (d. 1999 )
- December 27 - Onni Palaste , Finnish writer
- December 28 - Ellis Clarke , President Of Trinidad And Tobago
- December 29 - Ramanand Sagar , Indian film director (d. 2005 )
- December 30 - Seymour Melman , American industrial engineer (d. 2004 )
- January 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor , English anthropologist (b. 1832 )
- January 4 - Frederick Selous , explorer (killed in action)
- January 10 - William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), American frontiersman (b. 1846 )
- January 16 - George Dewey , U.S. admiral (b. 1837 )
- February 5 - Jaber II Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 )
- February 10 - John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (b. 1849 )
- March 5 - Manuel De Arriaga , first president of Portugal (b. 1840 )
- March 8 - Ferdinand Von Zeppelin , German inventor (b. 1838 )
- March 17 - Franz Brentano , German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838 )
- March 31 - Emil Adolf Von Behring , German winner of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1854 )
- April 1 - Scott Joplin , American musician and composer (b. 1867 - 1868 )
- April 14 - L. L. Zamenhof , Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859 )
- May 17 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke , ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829 )
- May 20 - Philipp Von Ferrary , Italian stamp collector (b. 1850 )
- May 25 - Maksim Bahdanovič , Belarusian poet (b. 1891 )
- June 26 - John Dunville , British Army officer (b. 1896 )
- June 30 - Antonio De La Gandara , French painter (b. 1861 )
- July 8 - Tom Thomson , Canadian painter (b. 1877 )
- July 16 - Philipp Scharwenka , Polish-German composer (b. 1847 )
- July 27 - Emil Kocher , Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1841 )
- July 31 - Francis Ledwidge , poet (killed in action) (b. 1887 )
- August 13 - Eduard Buchner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860 )
- August 20 - Adolf Von Baeyer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835 )
- August 30 - Alan Leo , British astrologer (b. 1860 )
- September 27 - Edgar Degas , French painter (b. 1834 )
- October 13 - Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (b. 1888 )
- October 15 - Mata Hari , Dutch dancer and spy (executed) (b. 1876 )
- October 23 - Eugène Grasset , Swiss artist (b. 1845 )
- October 28 - Prince Christian Of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831 )
- November 8 - Colin Blythe , English cricketer (b. 1879 )
- November 11 - Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawai'i (b. 1838 )
- November 15 - Émile Durkheim , French sociologist (b. 1858 )
- November 17
- --- Neil James Archibald Primrose , MP (killed in action) (b. 1882 )
- --- Auguste Rodin , French sculptor (b. 1840 )
- December 8 - Mendele Moykher Sforim , Russian Yiddish and Hebrew writer (b. 1836 )
- December 10 - Mackenzie Bowell , Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1824 )
- December 12 - Andrew Taylor Still , American father of osteopathy (b. 1828 )
- December 28 - Alfred Edwin McKay , Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892 )
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