Title: 1917 Content: == 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963) === June === * 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 === * August 6 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) * August 30 - Denis Healey, British politician (d. 2015) === September === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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)