1917
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Years: | 1914 1915 1916 – 1917 – 1918 1919 1920 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1917 MCMXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2670 |
| Armenian calendar | 1366 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6667 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 73–74 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1838–1839 |
| Bengali calendar | 1324 |
| Berber calendar | 2867 |
| British Regnal year | 7 Geo. 5 – 8 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2461 |
| Burmese calendar | 1279 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7425–7426 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4613 or 4553 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4614 or 4554 |
| Coptic calendar | 1633–1634 |
| Discordian calendar | 3083 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1909–1910 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5677–5678 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1973–1974 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1838–1839 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5017–5018 |
| Holocene calendar | 11917 |
| Igbo calendar | 917–918 |
| Iranian calendar | 1295–1296 |
| Islamic calendar | 1335–1336 |
| Japanese calendar | Taishō 6 (大正６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1847–1848 |
| Juche calendar | 6 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4250 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 6 民國6年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 449 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2459–2460 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 2043 or 1662 or 890 — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 2044 or 1663 or 891 |
1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
Events[change]
- Last year of Tsar Nicolas II of Russia's reign.
- Russian Revolutions (Russia goes communist)
- The United States declares war on Germany (for World War I)
- Influenza pandemic
Births[change]
January[change]
- January 5 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
- January 24 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)
- January 25 – Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist (d. 2003)
- January 25 – Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
February[change]
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- February 4 – Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan (d. 1980)
- February 6 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian American actress (d. 2016)
- February 14 – Herbert Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (d. 2011)
March[change]
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- March 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (d. 1986)
- March 20 – Vera Lynn, British singer (d. 2020)
- March 27 – Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
April[change]
- April 6 – Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican painter (d. 2011)
- April 17 – Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
- April 22 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992)
- April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
- April 26 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (d. 2019)
- April 26 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player
- April 29 – Celeste Holm, American actress (d. 2012)
May[change]
- May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
June[change]
- June 3 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
- June 6 - Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (d. 2013)
- June 7 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, comedian and film producer (d. 1995)
- June 9 - Eric Hobsbawm, British historian (d. 2012)
- June 30 - Lena Horne, American singer (d. 2010)
- June 30 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
July[change]
- July 14 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright (d. 2011)
- July 17 - Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (d. 2012)
August[change]
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- August 6 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
- August 30 - Denis Healey, British politician (d. 2015)
September[change]
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- September 11 - Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (d. 2012)
- September 11 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
- September 14 - Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (d. 2007)
October[change]
- October 2 - Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (d. 2013)
- October 20 - Stephane Hessel, French politician (d. 2013)
- October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d. 1993)
- October 22 - Joan Fontaine, American actress (d. 2013)
November[change]
- November 2 - Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012)
- November 7 - Helen Suzman, South African political activist (d. 2009)
- November 14 – Park Chung-hee, 3rd President of South Korea (d. 1979)
- November 19 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- November 20 - Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010)
- November 22 - Andrew Huxley, British scientist (d. 2012)
December[change]
- December 16 - Arthur C. Clarke, British writer (d. 2008)
- December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German author, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1985)
- December 28 - Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010)
Deaths[change]
- January 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
- 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 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (b. 1838)
- March 17 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
- March 31 – Emil von Behring, German winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
- April 1 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 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)
- June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
- July 27 – Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)
- 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 17 – 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)