1917

1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.

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

1917 in other calendars

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

• 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

January

Jane Wyman

Ernest Borgnine

Ilya Prigogine

Jânio Quadros

• 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

Yahya Khan

Zsa Zsa Gábor

• 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

Desi Arnaz

Vera Lynn

Cyrus Vance

• 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

Ella Fitzgerald

I. M. Pei

• 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

John F. Kennedy

• May 29 – John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States (d. 1963)

June

Dean Martin

Eric Hobsbawm

Lena Horne

Susan Hayward

• 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

• July 14 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright (d. 2011)
• July 17 - Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (d. 2012)

August

Robert Mitchum

• August 6 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
• August 30 - Denis Healey, British politician (d. 2015)

September

Ferdinand Marcos

• 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

Stéphane Hessel

Dizzy Gillespie

Joan Fontaine

• 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

Ann Rutherford

Park Chung-hee

Indira Gandhi

Robert Byrd

• 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

Arthur C. Clarke

Heinrich Böll

• 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

• 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)