In the year 1917
138 Notable deaths
Kikuchi Dairoku
Japanese mathematician and bureaucrat (1855-1917).
Born March 17th, 1855 in Edo.
Died August 19th, 1917 at 62 years old in Chigasaki.
Axel Olrik
Danish folklorist and scholar of mediaeval historiography.
Born July 3rd, 1864 in Copenhagen. [ref]
Died February 18th, 1917 at 52 years old in Øverød (pneumonia). [ref]
Yi Jun-yong
Korean noble (1870-1917).
Born June 25th, 1870 in Seoul.
Died March 22nd, 1917 at 46 years old in Unhyeongung (disease).
Ludwig Sütterlin
German artist (1865-1917).
Born July 23rd, 1865 in Lahr/Schwarzwald. [ref]
Died November 20th, 1917 at 52 years old in Berlin. [ref]
William Duddell
British physicist.
Born July 1st, 1872 in London.
Died November 4th, 1917 at 45 years old in London.
Walter Flex
German author.
Born July 6th, 1887 in Eisenach. [ref]
Died October 16th, 1917 at 30 years old in Saaremaa. [ref]
Pedro Bonifacio Palacios
Argentine poet (1854–1917).
Born May 13th, 1854 in La Matanza Partido.
Died February 28th, 1917 at 62 years old in La Plata.
Émile Boirac
French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of esperanto and writer.
Born August 26th, 1851 in Guelma.
Died September 20th, 1917 at 66 years old in Dijon.
Giuseppe Veronese
Italian mathematician (1854-1917).
Born May 7th, 1854 in Chioggia.
Died July 17th, 1917 at 63 years old in Padua.
Julian Ochorowicz
Polish writer and academic (1850-1917).
Born February 23rd, 1850 in Radzymin. [ref]
Died May 1st, 1917 at 67 years old in Warsaw. [ref]
Deaths 81 to 90 of 138
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Unknown