In the year 1917
284 Notable deaths
Lucien Petit-Breton
French cyclist.
Born October 18th, 1882 in Plessé.
Died December 20th, 1917 at 35 years old in Troyes (traffic collision).
Avshalom Feinberg
British spy (1889–1917).
Born October 23rd, 1889 in Gedera.
Died January 20th, 1917 at 27 years old in Sinai Peninsula (gunshot wound).
William Edward Barclay
English football manager (1857-1917).
Born June 14th, 1857 in Dublin.
Died January 30th, 1917 at 59 years old in Liverpool (exsanguination).
Frederick Stanley Maude
British army general (1864–1917).
Born June 24th, 1864 in Gibraltar.
Died November 18th, 1917 at 53 years old in Baghdad (cholera).
Wayne MacVeagh
Union army officer, lawyer, politician (1833-1917).
Born April 19th, 1833 in Phoenixville.
Died January 11th, 1917 at 83 years old in Washington, D.C.. [ref]
Sarat Chandra Das
Indian scholar of tibetan language and culture (1849-1917).
Born July 18th, 1849 in Chittagong.
Died January 5th, 1917 at 67 years old in Chittagong.
Antonio de La Gandara
French painter, pastellist and draughtsman (1861-1917).
Born December 16th, 1861 in 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Died June 30th, 1917 at 55 years old in Paris.
Aurel Popovici
Romanian politician (1863-1917).
Born October 16th, 1863 in Lugoj.
Died February 9th, 1917 at 53 years old in Geneva.
Louis Schmeisser
Weapons designer in europe in the early 1900s.
Born February 5th, 1848 in Zöllnitz.
Died March 23rd, 1917 at 69 years old in Suhl.
Friedrich Robert Helmert
German geodesist (1843-1917).
Born August 31st, 1843 in Freiberg.
Died June 15th, 1917 at 73 years old in Potsdam.
Ivan Kolev
Bulgarian general (1863-1917).
Born September 15th, 1863 in Bannivka.
Died July 29th, 1917 at 53 years old in Vienna.
Harry Lane
American politician (1855-1917).
Born August 28th, 1855 in Corvallis.
Died May 23rd, 1917 at 61 years old in San Francisco.
Maria Firmina dos Reis
Brazilian abolitionist, writer and journalist.
Born October 11th, 1825 in São Luís. [ref]
Died November 11th, 1917 at 92 years old in Guimarães.
António Teixeira de Sousa
Prime minister of portugal (1857-1917).
Born May 5th, 1857 in Celeirós.
Died June 5th, 1917 at 60 years old in Porto.
Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov
Russian politician.
Born April 8th, 1864 in Moscow.
Died March 15th, 1917 at 52 years old in Moscow (gunshot wound).
Fernand Labori
French lawyer and politician (1860-1917).
Born April 18th, 1860 in Reims.
Died March 14th, 1917 at 56 years old in Paris.
Yevgeni Bauer
Russian film director (1865–1917).
Born January 22nd, 1865 in Moscow.
Died June 22nd, 1917 at 52 years old in Yalta (pneumonia).
Mutien-Marie Wiaux
Belgian christian brother, educator and saint (1841–1917).
Born March 20th, 1841 in Mellet. [ref]
Died January 30th, 1917 at 75 years old in Malonne. [ref]
Vladislav Petković Dis
Serbian poet (1880–1917).
Born March 10th, 1880 in Zablaće.
Died May 16th, 1917 at 37 years old in Ionian Sea.
Robert Reinhold von Wirén
Baltic german admiral (1856–1917).
Born December 25th, 1856 in Veliky Novgorod. [ref]
Died March 14th, 1917 at 60 years old in Kronstadt. [ref]
Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh
Politician for india's independence (1841–1917).
Born March 24th, 1841 in Uttar Pradesh.
Died January 27th, 1917 at 75 years old (disease).
Kristian Zahrtmann
Danish painter (1843-1917).
Born March 31st, 1843 in Rønne.
Died June 22nd, 1917 at 74 years old in Frederiksberg (appendicitis).
Károly Ferenczy
Hungarian painter (1862-1917).
Born February 8th, 1862 in Vienna.
Died March 18th, 1917 at 55 years old in Budapest.
Vladimir Gaćinović
Bosnian serb writer and revolutionary (1890-1917).
Born May 25th, 1890 in Kačanj.
Died August 11th, 1917 at 27 years old in Fribourg (poisoning).
Heinrich Ritter von Gontermann
German flying ace (1896–1917).
Born February 25th, 1896 in Siegen.
Died October 30th, 1917 at 21 years old in Marle (aircraft crash).
Deaths 126 to 150 of 284
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi