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In the year 1917
130 Notable deaths
Walter Flex
German author.
Born July 6th, 1887 in Eisenach. [ref]
Died October 16th, 1917 at 30 years old in Saaremaa. [ref]
William Duddell
British physicist.
Born July 1st, 1872 in London.
Died November 4th, 1917 at 45 years old in London.
Robert Wiren
Imperial russian admiral.
Born December 25th, 1856 in Veliky Novgorod. [ref]
Died March 14th, 1917 at 60 years old in Kronstadt. [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.
Giuseppe Veronese
Italian mathematician (1854-1917).
Born May 7th, 1854 in Chioggia.
Died July 17th, 1917 at 63 years old in Padua.
Frans Schollaert
1851-1917, former belgian prime minister.
Born August 19th, 1851 in Wilsele.
Died June 29th, 1917 at 65 years old in Sainte-Adresse.
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]
Georges Demenÿ
French photographer.
Born June 12th, 1850 in Douai. [ref]
Died December 26th, 1917 at 67 years old in 18th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Valdemar Psilander
Danish actor (1884-1917).
Born May 9th, 1884 in Copenhagen.
Died March 6th, 1917 at 32 years old in Copenhagen (cardiac arrest).
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.
Deaths 81 to 90 of 130
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir