1917
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1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1917th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1917, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| 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 |
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)