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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.
1917
Events
Below, events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
February
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States announces to Congress the breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany
March
March 1
WWI: The U.S. government releases the text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
Ōmuta , Japan, is founded by Hiroushi Miruku.
March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
March 4
March 7 – "Livery Stable Blues ", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 , by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released. On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag ".
March 8 Women calling for bread and peace - Petrograd, 8th of March, 1917
March 10 – The Province of Batangas is formally founded, as one of the Philippines ' first encomiendas .
March 11 – Mexican Revolution : Venustiano Carranza is elected president of Mexico; the United States gives de jure recognition of his government.
March 12 – The Russian Duma declares a Provisional Government .
March 14 – WWI: The Republic of China terminates diplomatic relations with Germany.
March 15 (N.S.) (March 2 , O.S.) – Emperor Nicholas II of Russia abdicates his throne and his son's claims. This is considered to be the end of the Russian Empire , after 196 years.
March 16 (N.S.) (March 3 , O.S.) – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government, under Prince Georgy Lvov .
March 25 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores the autocephaly , abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811 .
March 26 – WWI – First Battle of Gaza : British Egyptian Expeditionary Force troops virtually encircle the Gaza garrison, but are then ordered to withdraw, leaving the city to the Ottoman defenders.
March 30 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden ; he is replaced by right-wing businessman and politician Carl Swartz .
March 31 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands , after paying $25 million to Denmark.
April
May
June
June 1 – French Army Mutinies : A French infantry regiment seizes Missy-aux-Bois , and declares an anti-war military government. Other French army troops soon apprehend them.
June 4 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards , Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography, (for Julia Ward Howe ). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history, for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism, for his work for the New York World .
June 5 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States.
June 7 – WWI: Battle of Messines opens with the British Army detonating 24 ammonal mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest deliberate non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
June 8 – Speculator Mine disaster : A fire at the Granite Mountain and Speculator ore mine, outside Butte, Montana , kills at least 168 workers.
June 11 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates for the first time, being succeeded by his son Alexander .
June 13 – WWI: The first major German bombing raid on London by fixed-wing aircraft leaves 162 dead and 432 injured.
June 15 – The United States enacts the Espionage Act .
July
July – The first Cottingley Fairies photographs are taken in Yorkshire , England, apparently depicting fairies (a hoax not admitted by the child creators until 1981 ).
July 1
July 2 – WWI: Greece joins the war on the side of the Allies .[10] [11]
July 6 – WWI:
July 7 – The Lions Clubs International is formed in the United States.
July 8 –13 – WWI – First Battle of Ramadi : British troops fail to take Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire; a majority of British casualties are due to extreme heat.
July 12 – Bisbee Deportation : The Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1,000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona .
July 16 –July 17 – Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austrian front, and retreat to the Ukraine ; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
July 16 –July 18 – July Days : Serious clashes occur in Petrograd ; Vladimir Lenin escapes to Finland ; Leon Trotsky is arrested.
July 17 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a proclamation, stating that thenceforth the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor , vice the Germanic bloodline of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , which is an offshoot of the historic (800+ years) House of Wettin .
July 20
The Parliament of Finland , with a Social Democratic majority, passes a "Sovereignty Act", declaring itself, as the representative of the Finnish people, sovereign over the Grand Principality of Finland . The Russian Provisional Government does not recognize the act, as it would have devolved Russian sovereignty over Finland, formerly exercised by the Russian Emperor as Grand Prince of Finland, and alter the relationship between Finland and Russia into a real union, with Russia solely responsible for the defence and foreign relations of an independent Finland.
(July 7 , O.S.) – Alexander Kerensky becomes premier of the Russian Provisional Government , replacing Prince Georgy Lvov .
The Russian Provisional Government enacts women's suffrage .
The Corfu Declaration , which enables the establishment of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia , is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the Kingdom of Serbia .
July 20 –July 28 – WWI: Austrian and German forces repulse the Russian advance into Galicia .
July 25 – Sir William Thomas White introduces Canada's first income tax as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
July 28 – The Silent Parade is organized by the NAACP in New York City, to protest the East St. Louis riot of July 2 , as well as lynchings in Tennessee and Texas .
July 30 – The Parliament of Finland is dissolved by the Russian Provisional Government . New elections are held in the autumn, resulting in a bourgeois majority.
July 31 – WWI – Battle of Passchendaele ("Third Battle of Ypres"): Allied offensive operations commence in Flanders.
August
September
October
November
November 1 – WWI:
November 2 – Zionism : The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration , proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
November 5 (N.S.) (October 23 , O.S.) – Estonian and Russian Bolsheviks seize power in Tallinn , Autonomous Governorate of Estonia , two days before the October Revolution in Petrograd .
November 6
November 7
November 13 – WWI:
November 15
November 16
November 17
November 20
WWI – Battle of Cambrai : British forces, using tanks , make early progress in an attack on German positions, but are soon beaten back.
The Ukraine is declared a republic.
November 22 – In Montreal , Quebec, Canada, the National Hockey Association suspends operations.
November 23 – The Bolsheviks release the full text of the previously secret Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 in Izvestia and Pravda ; it is printed in the Manchester Guardian on November 26 .
November 24 – A bomb kills 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department , the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history (until the September 11 attacks in 2001 ).
November 25 – WWI – Battle of Ngomano : German forces defeat a Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano , on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania .
November 26 – The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal, as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association .
November 28 – WWI: The Bolsheviks offer peace terms to the Germans .
December
December – Annie Besant becomes president of the Indian National Congress .
December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29 , 1907 and September 11 , 1916).
December 6
December 9 – WWI – Battle of Jerusalem : The British Egyptian Expeditionary Force accepts the surrender of Jerusalem by the mayor, Hussein al-Husayni , following the effective defeat of the Ottoman Empire 's Yildirim Army Group .
December 11 – WWI: General Edmund Allenby leads units of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force into Jerusalem on foot through, the Jaffa Gate .
December 17 – The Raad van Vlaanderen proclaims the independence of Flanders .
December 20 (N.S.) (December 7 , O.S.) – The Cheka , a predecessor to the KGB , is established in Russia.
December 23 (N.S.) (December 10 , O.S.) – A local plebiscite supports transferring Narva and Ivangorod (Jaanilinn ) from the Petrograd Governorate , to the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia .
December 25 – Jesse Lynch Williams 's Why Marry? , the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize , opens at the Astor Theatre, New York City .
December 26 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration , hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.
December 30 – WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force secures the victory at the Battle of Jerusalem , by successfully defending Jerusalem from numerous Yildirim Army Group counterattacks.
Date unknown
Births
January
January 2
January 3
January 5
January 6 – Koo Chen-fu , Nationalist Chinese negotiator (d. 2005 )
January 10
January 12 – Jimmy Skinner , American hockey coach (d. 2007 )[14]
January 15 – K. A. Thangavelu , Indian film actor, comedian (d. 1994 )
January 16 – Carl Karcher , American founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008 )
January 17 – M. G. Ramachandran , Tamil Nadu chief minister, actor (d. 1987 )
January 19 – Graham Higman , British mathematician (d. 2008 )
January 21 – Erling Persson , Swedish businessman, founder of H&M (d. 2002 )
January 24 – Ernest Borgnine , American actor (d. 2012 )
January 25
January 26
January 29 – John Raitt , American actor, singer (d. 2005 )
February
February 1
February 2
February 3 – Shlomo Goren , Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d. 1994 )
February 4 – Yahya Khan , 3rd President of Pakistan (d. 1980 )
February 5 – Isuzu Yamada , Japanese actress (d. 2012 )
February 6
February 9 – Joseph Conombo , Prime Minister of Upper Volta (d. 2008 )
February 11
February 12 – Dom DiMaggio , American baseball player (d. 2009 )
February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman , American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2011 )
February 15 – Meg Wyllie , American actress (d. 2002 )
February 17
February 18 – Tuulikki Pietilä , Finnish artist (d. 2009 )
February 19 – Carson McCullers , American author (d. 1967 )
February 20
February 21 – Lucille Bremer , American actress, dancer (d. 1996 )
February 23 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai , 2-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1985 )
February 25
February 26 – Robert Taft Jr. , American politician (d. 1993 )
February 27
February 28 – Ernesto Alonso , Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007 )
March
March 1 – Robert Lowell , American poet (d. 1977 )
March 2
March 3 – Sameera Moussa , Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952 )
March 4 – Clyde McCullough , American baseball catcher (d. 1982 )
March 5 – Raymond P. Shafer , Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2006 )
March 6
March 9 – Jack Laver , Tasmanian cricketer (d. 2017 )
March 10
March 12
March 16 – Mehrdad Pahlbod , Iranian royal and politician (d. 2018 )
March 18 – Mircea Ionescu-Quintus , Romanian politician (d. 2017 )
March 19
March 20
March 21
March 22 – Virginia Grey , American actress (d. 2004 )
March 23 – Kenneth Tobey , American actor (d. 2002 )
March 24
March 26 – Rufus Thomas , American singer (d. 2001 )
March 27
March 29 – Man o' War , champion thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947 )
April
April 1
April 2 – Dabbs Greer , American actor (d. 2007 )
April 3 – Edward Rowny , American army lieutenant general (d. 2017 )
April 5 – Robert Bloch , American writer (d. 1994 )
April 7 – R. G. Armstrong , American actor (d. 2012 )
April 8
April 9 – Brad Dexter , American actor (d. 2002 )
April 10 – Robert Burns Woodward , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
April 11 – Morton Sobell , American spy (d. 2018 )
April 12 – Džemal Bijedić , Yugoslav politician (d. 1977 )
April 13
April 14
April 15 – Hans Conried , American actor (d. 1982 )
April 16 – Barry Nelson , American actor (d. 2007 )
April 22
April 23 – Dorian Leigh , American model (d. 2008 )
April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald , American jazz singer (d. 1996 )
April 26
April 28
April 29
April 30 – Bea Wain , American singer (d. 2017 )
May
May 1
May 3
May 6 – Morihiro Higashikuni , Japanese prince (d. 1969 )
May 7 – David Tomlinson , English actor (d. 2000 )
May 8
May 12 – Frank Clair , Canadian football coach (d. 2005 )
May 14 – Lou Harrison , American composer (d. 2003 )
May 15
May 16 – Juan Rulfo , Mexican writer, photographer (d. 1986 )
May 20 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson , Icelandic politician (d. 2005 )
May 21 – Raymond Burr , Canadian actor, best known for his role in Perry Mason (d. 1993 )
May 22
May 24 – Florence Knoll , American architect, furniture designer (d. 2019 )
May 25 – Theodore Hesburgh , American priest, educator (d. 2015 )
May 28
May 29 – John F. Kennedy , 35th President of the United States (d. 1963 )
May 31 – Zilka Salaberry , Brazilian actress (d. 2005 )
June
June 1 – William S. Knowles , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012 )
June 2 – Max Showalter , American actor, musician (d. 2000 )
June 3 – Leo Gorcey , American actor (d. 1969 )
June 4
June 6 – Kirk Kerkorian , Armenian-American businessman, billionaire (d. 2015 )
June 7
June 8
June 9 – Eric Hobsbawm , Egyptian-born British historian (d. 2012 )
June 10
June 13 – Augusto Roa Bastos , Paraguayan writer (d. 2005 )
June 14
June 15
June 16
June 17
June 18
June 19
June 21 – Leslie Shepard , British author, archivist and curator (d. 2004 )
June 24
June 25
June 26 – Idriz Ajeti , Albanian albanologist (d. 2019 )
June 28 – A. E. Hotchner , American editor, novelist, playwright and biographer
June 29 – Ling Yun , Chinese politician (d. 2018 )
June 30
July
July 1
July 2 – André Lafargue , French journalist, resistance fighter (d. 2017 )
July 3 – Donald Wills Douglas, Jr. , American industrialist, sportsman (d. 2004 )
July 4 – Manolete , Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947 )
July 5 – Kathleen Gemberling Adkison , American abstract painter (d. 2010 )
July 6
July 7
July 8 – Pamela Brown , English actress (d. 1975 )
July 9
July 10
July 11 – Per Carleson , Swedish épée fencer (d. 2004 )
July 12
July 14 – Frank Vigar , English cricketer (d. 2004 )
July 15
July 16 – Alex Urban , American football player (d. 2007 )
July 17
July 18
July 19 – William Scranton , American politician (d. 2013 )
July 20
July 21
July 22
July 23 – Omar Yoke Lin Ong , Malaysian politician, diplomat and businessman (d. 2010 )
July 24
July 25 – Fritz Honegger , 79th President of Switzerland (d. 1999 )
July 26 – Lorna Gray , American actress (d. 2017 )
July 27 – Wu Zhonghua , Chinese physicist, pioneered three-dimensional flow theory (d. 1992 )
July 29 – Rochus Misch , German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (d. 2013 )
July 30 – Keith Rae , Australian rules footballer
August
August 3
August 6 – Robert Mitchum , American actor (d. 1997 )
August 7 – Raja Perempuan Zainab , Queen of Malaysia (d. 1993 )
August 8 – Earl Cameron , Bermudian actor
August 9 – Jao Tsung-I , Chinese-born Hong Kong scholar, poet, calligrapher and painter (d. 2018 )
August 11
August 12 – Marjorie Reynolds , American actress (d. 1997 )
August 14 – Marty Glickman , American sports announcer (d. 2001 )
August 15
August 17 – Zvi Keren , American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer (d. 2008 )
August 18 – Caspar Weinberger , United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006 )
August 21 – Esther Cooper Jackson , African-American civil rights activist
August 22
August 23 – Hu Chengzhi , Chinese palaeontologist, palaeoanthropologist (d. 2018 )
August 25
August 28 – Jack Kirby , American comic book artist (d. 1994 )
August 29 – Isabel Sanford , African-American actress, best known for her role in The Jeffersons (d. 2004 )
August 30 – Denis Healey , English politician, author (d. 2015 )
September
September 5 – Art Rupe , American music industry executive, record producer
September 6 – Philipp von Boeselager , German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008 )
September 7
September 10 – Miguel Serrano , Chilean diplomat, explorer and journalist (d. 2009 )
September 11
September 13 – Robert Ward , American composer (d. 2013 )
September 15
September 17 – Henry Pearce , Australian politician
September 18 – June Foray , American voice actress best known for "Rocky and Bullwinkle" (d. 2017 )
September 20
September 22 – Anna Campori , Italian actress (d. 2018 )
September 23
September 24 – Otto Günsche , German general (d. 2003 )
September 25 – Johnny Sain , American baseball player (d. 2006 )
September 26 – Tran Duc Thao , Vietnamese phenomenologist and Marxist philosopher (d. 1993 )
September 27 – Louis Auchincloss , American novelist (d. 2010 )
October
October 2
October 3 – Les Schwab , American businessman (d. 2007 )
October 5 – Allen Ludden , American game show host (d. 1981 )
October 6 – Fannie Lou Hamer , African-American civil rights activist (d. 1977 )
October 7 – June Allyson , American actress (d. 2006 )
October 8
October 9 – Don Marion Davis , American child actor
October 10 – Thelonious Monk , African-American jazz pianist (d. 1982 )
October 11 – J. Edward McKinley , American actor (d. 2004 )
October 13 – George Virl Osmond , Osmond family patriarch (d. 2007 )
October 15
October 16 – Alice Pearce , American actress (d. 1966 )
October 17
October 19 – Walter Munk , Austrian-born American oceanographer (d. 2019 )
October 20
October 21
October 22 – Joan Fontaine , British-born actress (d. 2013 )
October 24 – Fang Huai , Chinese military officer and major general of PLA (d. 2019 )
October 27 – Oliver Tambo , South African activist, revolutionary (d. 1993 )
October 28
October 30
October 31 – Gordon Steege , Australian military officer (d. 2013 )
November
November 1
November 2
November 3 – Chung Sze-yuen , Hong Kong politician (d. 2018 )
November 4
November 5 – Jacqueline Auriol , French aviator (d. 2000 )
November 6 – Harlan Warde , American actor (d. 1980 )
November 10 – Koun Wick , Cambodian statesman and diplomat (d. 1999 )
November 11
November 12
November 13
November 14 – Park Chung-hee , former president of South Korea (d. 1979 )
November 18 – Pedro Infante , Mexican actor, singer (d. 1957 )
November 19 – Indira Gandhi , 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984 )
November 20 – Robert Byrd , U.S. senator from West Virginia, President pro tempore of the United States Senate (d. 2010 )
November 22 – Andrew Huxley , English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012 )
November 24 – Shabtai Rosenne , British-born Israeli diplomat, jurist (d. 2010 )
November 25 – Stanley Wilson , American musician (d. 1970 )
November 27 – Buffalo Bob Smith , American children's television host (d. 1998 )
November 28
November 29 – Pierre Gaspard-Huit , French film director, screenwriter (d. 2017 )
December
December 4 – Arthur B. Singer , American wildlife artist (d. 1990 )
December 5 – Wenche Foss , Norwegian actress (d. 2011 )
December 6
December 7 – Hurd Hatfield , American actor (d. 1998 )
December 8 – Ian Johnson , Australian cricketer (d. 1998 )
December 9 – James Rainwater , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
December 10 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan , King of Malaysia (d. 1979 )
December 13 – John Hart , American actor (d. 2009 )
December 15
December 16
December 18 – Ossie Davis , African-American actor, film director and activist (d. 2005 )
December 19 – Paul Brinegar , American actor (d. 1995 )
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 25
December 27 – Onni Palaste , Finnish writer (d. 2009 )
December 28 – Ellis Clarke , 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010 )
December 29 – Ramanand Sagar , Indian film director (d. 2005 )
December 30 – Seymour Melman , American industrial engineer (d. 2004 )
December 31 – Suzy Delair , French actress, singer (d. 2020 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–March
January 2 – Sir Edward Tylor , English anthropologist (b. 1832 )
January 4 – Frederick Selous , British explorer (b. 1851 )
January 6
January 8
January 10 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody , American frontiersman (b. 1846 )
January 16 – George Dewey , U.S. admiral (b. 1837 )
January 18 – Andrew Murray , South African author, educationist and pastor (b. 1828 )
January 29 – Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer , British diplomat and colonial administrator (b. 1841 )
February 5 – Jaber II Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 )
February 8 – Anton Haus , Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1851 )
February 10 – John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (b. 1849 )
February 17 – Carolus-Duran , French painter (b. 1837 )
February 21
March 5 – Manuel de Arriaga , 1st President of Portugal (b. 1840 )
March 6 – Jules Vandenpeereboom , 17th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1843 )
March 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin , German general, inventor (b. 1838 )
March 17 – Franz Brentano , German philosopher, psychologist (b. 1838 )
March 31 – Emil von Behring , German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854 )
April–June
April 1 – Scott Joplin , African-American composer, pianist (b. 1867 )
April 3 – Milton Wright , American bishop, father of the Wright brothers (b. 1828 )
April 6 – Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (b. 1893 )
April 7 – George Brown , British missionary (b. 1835 )
April 8 – Richard Olney , American politician (b. 1835 )
April 13 – Diamond Jim Brady , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1856 )
April 14 – L. L. Zamenhof , Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859 )
April 18 – F. C. Burnand , British playwright and comic writer (b. 1836 )
April 29 – Queen Tehaapapa III , Tahitian queen (b. 1879 )
May 7 – Albert Ball , British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1896 )
May 16 – Robert Sandilands Frowd Walker , British colonial administrator (b. 1850 )
May 17
May 18 – John Nevil Maskelyne , English magician and inventor (b. 1839 )
May 20 – Philipp von Ferrary , Italian stamp collector (b. 1850 )
May 23 – Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar (b. 1855 )
May 24 – Les Darcy , Australian boxer (b. 1895 )
May 25
May 29 – Kate Harrington , American teacher, writer, and poet (b. 1831 )
June 3 – Matilda Carse , Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer (b. 1835 )
June 5 – Karl Emil Schäfer , German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1891 )
June 14 – Thomas W. Benoist , American aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the world' s first scheduled airline (b. 1874 )
June 17 – José Manuel Pando , 25th President of Bolivia (b. 1849 )
June 18 – Titu Maiorescu , Romanian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840 )
June 26 – John Dunville , British Army officer (killed in action) (b. 1896 )
June 27
June 29 – Frans Schollaert , 19th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1851 )
June 30 – Antonio de La Gándara , French painter (b. 1861 )
July–September
July 2 – Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , British actor (b. 1852 )
July 8 – Tom Thomson , Canadian painter (b. 1877 )
July 12 – Donald Cunnell , British World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1893 )
July 16 – Philipp Scharwenka , Polish-German composer (b. 1847 )
July 27 – Emil Kocher , Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841 )
July 28
July 31
August 3
August 7 – Edwin Harris Dunning , British aviator (b. 1892 )
August 13 – Eduard Buchner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860 )
August 17 – John W. Kern , American Democratic politician (b. 1849 )
August 20 – Adolf von Baeyer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835 )
August 30 – Alan Leo , British astrologer (b. 1860 )
September 9
September 11 – Georges Guynemer , French World War I fighter ace (missing in action) (b. 1894 )
September 15 – Kurt Wolff , German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895 )
September 23 – Werner Voss , German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897 )
September 26 – Edward Miner Gallaudet , American educator of the deaf (b. 1837 )
September 27 – Edgar Degas , French painter (b. 1834 )
September 30 – Patricio Montojo y Pasarón , Spanish admiral (b. 1839 )
October–December
October 3 – Eduardo di Capua , Neapolitan composer and songwriter (b. 1865 )
October 4 – Dave Gallaher , New Zealand rugby union football player (killed in action) (b. 1873 )
October 9 – Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt , (b. 1853 )
October 11 – Duke Philipp of Wurttemberg (b. 1838 )
October 13 – Florence La Badie , American actress (accident) (b. 1888 )
October 15 – Mata Hari , Dutch dancer, spy (executed) (b. 1876 )
October 17 – Bobby Atherton , Welsh footballer (b. 1876 )
October 22 – Bob Fitzsimmons , British boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1863 )
October 23 – Eugène Grasset , Swiss artist (b. 1845 )
October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids , British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897 )
October 28 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831 )
October 30 – Heinrich Gontermann , German fighter ace (flying accident) (b. 1896 )
November 3 – Frederick Rodgers , American admiral (b. 1842 )
November 8 – Colin Blythe , English cricketer (b. 1879 )
November 11 – Liliʻuokalani , last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1838 )
November 15 – Émile Durkheim , French sociologist (b. 1858 )
November 16 – Adolf Reinach , German philosopher (killed in action) (b. 1883 )
November 17
December 8 – Mendele Mocher Sforim , Russian Yiddish, Hebrew writer (b. 1836 )
December 10 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell , 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823 )
December 12 – Andrew Taylor Still , American father of osteopathy (b. 1828 )
December 17 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , English physician and suffragette (b. 1836 )
December 19 – Richard Maybery , British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895 )
December 20 – Eric Campbell , Scottish actor (accident) (b. 1879 )
December 22
December 24 – Ivan Goremykin , Russian statesman, former Prime Minister (b. 1839 )
December 28 – Alfred Edwin McKay , Canadian fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1892 )
Nobel Prizes
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Further reading
Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 175–242.
Primary sources and year books