page_title: 1917
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1917 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Português: Foto oficial de Jânio Quadros, presidente do Brasil em 1961.
context_page_description: 1917 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 and Anno Domini 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.
context_section_description: January 2
  Albin F. Irzyk, American Brigadier General (d. 2018)
  Vera Zorina, German dancer, actress (d. 2003)
  K. M. Mathew, Indian newspaper editor (d. 2010)
  January 3
  Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
  Liu Zhonghua, Chinese military officer (d. 2018)
  Jesse White, American actor (d. 1997)
  D. J. Finney, British statistician (d. 2018)
  January 5
  Adolfo Consolini, Italian discus thrower (d. 1969)
  Lucienne Day, British textile designer (d. 2010)
  Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat, prominent socialite (d. 2006)
  Jane Wyman, American actress, philanthropist, and first wife of Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)
  January 6 – Koo Chen-fu, Nationalist Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
  January 10
  Saul Cherniack, Canadian politician, lawyer (d. 2018)
  Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
  January 12 – Jimmy Skinner, American hockey coach (d. 2007)
  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
  Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist, chemist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2003)
  Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
  January 26
  William Verity Jr., 27th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2007)
  Louis Zamperini, American prisoner of war (World War II), Olympic distance athlete (1936), and Christian evangelist (d. 2014)
  January 27 – Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, British army officer and politician (d. 1989)
  January 29 – John Raitt, American actor, singer (d. 2005)
caption: Jânio Quadros
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