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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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] Below, events of World War I have the "WWI"
prefix. January[edit] Main article: January 1917 ·
January 2 – The Royal Bank of Canada takes
over Quebec Bank. ·
January 3 – Ratho rail crash in Scotland: North British
Railway H class locomotive
874 Dunedin, in charge of the Edinburgh to Glasgow express train,
collides with a light engine at
Queensferry Junction, leaving 12 people dead and 46 seriously injured. The
cause is found to be inadequate signalling procedures.[1] ·
January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by
the Egyptian
Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. ·
January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off
the Kingsland Explosion at
Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New
Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in
WWI. ·
January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the
United States for $25 million. ·
January 19 – Silvertown explosion:
A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400; the
resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage. ·
January 22 – WWI: United States
President Woodrow Wilson calls
for "peace without victory" in Germany. ·
WWI:
British armed merchantman SS Laurentic is
sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland),
with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ·
An
anti-prostitution drive in San
Francisco occurs, and police close about 200 prostitution
houses. ·
January 26 – The sea defences at the
English village of Hallsands are
breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable. ·
January 28 – The United States ends its
search for Pancho Villa. ·
January 30 – Pershing's troops in Mexico begin withdrawing back to the
United States. They reach Columbus, New Mexico February 5. February[edit] Main article: February 1917 ·
February 1 – WWI: Atlantic
U-boat Campaign: Germany announces its U-boats will resume unrestricted
submarine warfare, rescinding the 'Sussex Pledge'. ·
February 3 – WWI: The United States
severs diplomatic relations with Germany. ·
February 5 – The new constitution of
Mexico is adopted. ·
Mata Hari is arrested in Paris for
spying. ·
WWI
– Raid on Nekhl:
Units of the Egyptian
Expeditionary Force completely reoccupy the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. ·
February 21 – British troopship SS Mendi is accidentally
rammed and sunk off the Isle of Wight, killing 646, mainly members
of the South
African Native Labour Corps.[2] ·
February 24 – WWI: United States
ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter Hines Page,
is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram,
in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if
Mexico declares war on the United States. President Woodrow Wilson of the United
States announces to Congress the breaking of diplomatic relations with
Germany March[edit] Main article: March 1917 ·
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 ·
Woodrow Wilson is sworn
in for a second term, as President of the United States. ·
Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member
of the United
States House of Representatives. ·
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 ·
(N.S.)
(February 23, O.S.) – The February Revolution begins
in Russia: Women calling for bread in Petrograd start riots, which
spontaneously spread throughout the city. ·
The United States Senate adopts
the cloture rule, in order to limit filibusters. ·
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 jurerecognition 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[edit] Main article: April 1917 ·
April 2 – WWI: U.S. President Woodrow
Wilson asks the United States
Congress for a declaration of war on
Germany. ·
April 6 – WWI: The United States declares
war on Germany. ·
April 8 (N.S.) (March 26, O.S.) – In Petrograd, 40,000 ethnic Estonians demand national autonomy within Russia. ·
April 9–May 16 – WWI – Battle of Arras:
British Empire troops make a significant advance on the Western Front but are
unable to achieve a breakthrough. ·
April 9–12 – WWI: Canadian troops win the Battle of Vimy Ridge. ·
April 10 – An ammunition factory
explosion in Chester,
Pennsylvania kills 133. ·
April 11 – WWI: Brazil severs
diplomatic relations with Germany. ·
April 12 (N.S.) (March 30 O.S.) – The Autonomous
Governorate of Estonia is formed within Russia, from the Governorate of
Estonia and the northern part of the Governorate of
Livonia. ·
April 16 ·
(N.S.)
(April 3, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin arrives at the Finland Station in Petrograd. ·
WWI:
The Nivelle Offensive commences. Lenin ·
April 17 ·
(N.S.)
(April 4, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin's April Theses are published.[3] They
become very influential in the following July Days and Bolshevik Revolution. ·
WWI:
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the Second Battle of
Gaza. This unsuccessful frontal attack on strong Ottomandefences along with the first battle,
results in 10,000 casualties, the dismissal of force commander General Archibald Murray, and the beginning of
the Stalemate
in Southern Palestine. ·
The Times and the Daily Mail (London newspapers both
owned by Lord
Northcliffe) print atrocity propaganda of
the supposed existence of a German Corpse
Factory. ·
April 26 – WWI: The Agreement
of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, between France, Italy and the United
Kingdom, to settle interests in the Middle East, is signed. May[edit] Main article: May 1917 ·
May 9 – WWI: The Nivelle Offensive is
abandoned. ·
May 13 – Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the
future Pope Pius XII,
is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.[4] ·
May 13–October 13 (at monthly intervals) –
10-year-old Lúcia Santos and
her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto report experiencing a series of Marian apparitions near Fátima, Portugal,
which become known as Our Lady of Fátima. ·
May 15 – Robert Nivelle is replaced as
Commander-in-Chief of the French Army,
by Philippe Pétain. ·
May 18 – WWI: The Selective
Service Act passes the United States
Congress, giving the President the
power of conscription. ·
May 21 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are
destroyed in the Great Atlanta
fire of 1917 in the United States. ·
May 22 ·
The
Commissioned Officer Corps of the U.S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey is established. ·
Ell Persons is
lynched in Memphis, in connection with the rape and murder of 16-year-old
Antoinette Rappal. ·
May 23 ·
A
month of civil violence in Milan, Italy ends, after
the Italian army forcibly takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war
revolutionaries; 50 people are killed and 800 arrested.[5] ·
WWI:
During the Stalemate
in Southern Palestine the Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway,
by the British Desert Column,
large sections of the railway line linking Beersheba to the main Ottoman desert base are destroyed. ·
May 26 – A tornado strikes Mattoon, Illinois,
causing devastation and killing 101 people. ·
May 27 – WWI: Over 30,000 French troops
refuse to go to the trenches at Missy-aux-Bois. ·
May 27 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon
Law. June[edit] Main article: June 1917 ·
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 19 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[edit] Main article: July 1917 ·
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 ·
East St. Louis riot:
A labor dispute ignites a race riot in East St. Louis,
Illinois, which leaves 250 dead. ·
Russian
General Brusilov begins the major Kerensky Offensive in Galicia,
initially advancing towards Lemberg. ·
July 2 – WWI: Greece joins the war on
the side of the Allies.[6][7] ·
July 6 – WWI: ·
Battle of Aqaba: Arabian troops, led by T. E. Lawrence, capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire. ·
The Conscription
Crisis of 1917 in Canada leads to passage of the Military
Service Act. ·
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[edit] Main article: August 1917 ·
August 2–August 3 – The Green Corn Rebellion,
an uprising by several hundred farmers against the WWI draft, takes place in
central Oklahoma. ·
August 2 – Squadron Commander
E.H. Dunning lands his aircraft on the ship HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney. He is killed 5 days later during
another landing on the ship. ·
August 3 – The New York Guard is founded. ·
August 10 – A general strike begins in
Spain; it is smashed after 3 days with 70 left dead, hundreds of wounded and
2,000 arrests. ·
August 14 – The Republic of
China declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. ·
August 17 – One of English literature's
important meetings takes place, when Wilfred Owen introduces himself
to Siegfried Sassoon at
the Craiglockhart
War Hospital in Edinburgh. ·
August 18 – The Great
Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 in Greece destroys 32% of the city,
leaving 70,000 individuals homeless. ·
August 29 – WWI: The Military
Service Act is passed in the House of
Commons of Canada, giving the Government of Canada the
right to conscript men into the army. September[edit] Main article: September 1917 ·
September 14 (September 1 Old Style) – Russia is declared a republic, by the Provisional
Government. ·
September 23 – Leon Trotsky is elected Chairman of
the Petrograd Soviet. ·
September 25 – The Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies)
votes to side with the Bolsheviks. ·
September 26–October 3 – WWI – Battle of Polygon
Wood (part of the Battle of
Passchendaele) near Ypres in Belgium: British and
Australian troops capture positions from the Germans. ·
September 28–29 – WWI – Second Battle of
Ramadi: British troops take Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire. October[edit] Main article: October 1917 ·
October 4 – WWI – Battle of
Broodseinde near Ypres: British Imperial forces overpower
the German 4th Army's
defences. ·
October 12 – WWI – First
Battle of Passchendaele: Allies fail to take a German defensive
position, with the biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand, over
800 of whose men and 45 officers are killed, roughly 1 in 1,000 of the
nation's population at this time. ·
October 12-19 – WWI – Operation Albion: German forces land on and
capture the West Estonian
archipelago. ·
October 13 – The Miracle of the Sun is
reported at Fátima, Portugal. ·
October 15 – WWI: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch
dancer Mata Hari is
executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. ·
Dallas Love Field Airport
is opened in Texas. ·
Carl Swartz leaves office as Prime
Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the
Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history
professor Nils Edén. ·
October 23 – A Brazilian ship
is destroyed by a German U-Boat, encouraging Brazil to enter World War I. ·
October 24 WW1 – Battle of Caporetto:
Austrian and German forces penetrate Italian lines as far south as the Piave
River. It is the first major engagement for junior German officer Erwin
Rommel. ·
October 25 (O.S.) (November 7, N.S.) – Traditional beginning
date of the October Revolution and Russian Civil War. ·
October 26 – WWI: Brazil declares war against
the Central Powers. Brazilian President Venceslau Brássigns
a declaration of war against the Central Powers ·
October 27 – WWI – Battle of Buqqar
Ridge: Ottoman forces
attack British Desert Mounted Corps units
garrisoning El-Buqqar Ridge, during the last days of the Stalemate
in Southern Palestine. ·
October 31 – WWI – Battle of
Beersheba: The British XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps (Egyptian
Expeditionary Force) attack and capture Beersheba from Ottoman forces, ending
the stalemate
in Southern Palestine. The battle includes a rare (by this date)
mounted charge, by
Australian mounted infantry. November[edit] Main article: November 1917 ·
November 1 – WWI: ·
The
British XXI Corps of
the Egyptian
Expeditionary Force begins the Third Battle of Gaza. ·
The
British Desert Mounted Corps begins
the Battle of Tel
el Khuweilfe, in the direction of Hebron and Jerusalem. ·
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. ·
WWI
– Second
Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting,
Canadian forces take Passchendaele in
Belgium (the battle concludes on November 10). ·
WWI:
The Battle of
Hareira and Sheria is launched by the British XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps,
against the central Ottoman defences
protecting the Gaza to Beersheba Road. ·
Militants
from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers, to seize
government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government. ·
(N.S.)
(October 25, O.S.) – October Revolution in
Russia: The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in
Russia, led by the Bolshevik
Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy
the Kerensky Provisional
Government after less than eight months of rule. This
immediately triggers the Russian Civil War. ·
Iran (which has provided weapons for
Russia) refuses to support the Allied Forces after
the October Revolution. ·
WWI
– Third Battle of Gaza:
The British Army XXI Corps occupies Gaza, after the Ottoman garrison withdraws. ·
WWI:
The Battle of
Hareira and Sheria continues, when the XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps capture
Hareira and Sheria, marking the end of the OttomanGaza to Beersheba line. ·
Women's
Suffrage in the United States: Women win the right to vote in New
York State.[8] ·
November 13 – WWI: ·
Battle of Mughar
Ridge: The Egyptian
Expeditionary Force attacks retreating Yildirim Army Group forces,
resulting in the capture of 10,000 Ottoman prisoners, 100 guns and 50
miles (80 km) of Palestine territory. ·
The ANZAC Mounted
Division (Desert Mounted Corps)
successfully fights the Battle of Ayun Kara,
in the aftermath of the Battle of Mughar
Ridge against strong German rearguards. ·
"Night of
Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes
from the Silent Sentinels are
deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned. ·
The Parliament of
Finland passes another "Sovereignty Act",
dissolving Russian sovereignty over Finland and effectively declaring Finland
independent. ·
(N.S.)
(November 2, O.S.) – The Provincial
Assembly of the Autonomous
Governorate of Estonia declares itself the highest legal body
in Estonia, in opposition to Bolsheviks. ·
WWI: Battle of Ayun Kara:
The ANZAC Mounted
Division occupies Jaffa. ·
Georges Clemenceau becomes
prime minister of France. ·
WWI: Action of 17
November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west
coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U.S. ships take a
submarine (which is then scuttled). ·
WWI:
The Battle of
Jerusalem (1917) begins, with the Egyptian Expeditionary
Force launching attacks against Ottoman forces in the Judean Hills. ·
The People's
Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom. ·
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[edit] Main article: December 1917 ·
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). ·
The
Senate of Finland officially declares the country's independence from Russia. ·
Halifax Explosion:
Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1,963 people, injures 9,000
and destroys part of the city (the biggest man-made explosion in recorded
history until the Trinity nuclear test in
1945). ·
WWI: U.S. Navy destroyer USS Jacob
Jones is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German
submarine U-53, killing 66 crew in the first
significant American naval loss of the war.[9] ·
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 – The Cheka, a predecessor to the KGB,
is established in Russia. ·
December 23 (N.S.) (February 23, 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' 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[edit] ·
Following
the October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai is
appointed People's Commissar for
Social Welfare in the Council of
People's Commissars of the Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,
the first woman cabinet minister in
Europe. ·
Women
are permitted to stand in national elections in the Netherlands. ·
The True Jesus Church is
established in Beijing. ·
Imokawa
Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki (the first anime) is released in Japan. 1917 is the centennial year of the
Gregoria's Calendar. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Shannon Bolin, American actress, singer
(d. 2016) ·
Shuntaro Hida, Japanese physician (d. 2017) ·
Albin F. Irzyk, American Brigadier General
(d. 2018) ·
Vera Zorina, German dancer, actress
(d. 2003) ·
K. M. Mathew, Indian newspaper editor
(d. 2010) ·
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) ·
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) ·
Saul Cherniack, Canadian politician, lawyer
(d. 2018) ·
Jerry Wexler, American record producer
(d. 2008) ·
Zamina Begum, Princess and 1st First Lady of
Afghanistan (d. 1978) ·
Henry Morgenthau III,
American author and television producer (d. 2018) ·
January 12 – Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings head coach
(d. 2007) ·
January 15 – K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor,
comedian (d. 1994) ·
Bill Lucas,
British RAF officer, Olympic long-distance runner (d. 2018) ·
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) ·
Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist,
chemist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (d. 2003) ·
Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992) ·
Louis Zamperini, American prisoner of war
(World War II), Olympic distance athlete (1936), and Christian evangelist
(d. 2014) ·
William Verity Jr.,
American politician (d. 2007) ·
January 29 – John Raitt, American actor, singer (d. 2005) February[edit] ·
Ed Simons,
American musician (d. 2018) ·
Squadron Leader James
"Ginger" Lacey, the top scoring RAF fighter pilot during
the Battle of Britain (d. 1989) ·
Mary Ellis,
British ferry pilot (d. 2018) ·
Đỗ
Mười, Vietnamese leader (d. 2018) ·
February 3 – Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of
Israel (d. 1994) ·
February 4 – Yahya Khan, President of
Pakistan (d. 1980) ·
February 5 – Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012) ·
John Franzese, Italian-born American
prisoner ·
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress
(d. 2016) ·
February 9 – Joseph Conombo, Prime
Minister of Upper Volta (d. 2008) ·
T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary
(d. 1976) ·
Sidney Sheldon, American author, television
writer (d. 2007) ·
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) ·
Abdel Rahman Badawi,
Egyptian existentialist philosopher
(d. 2002) ·
Whang-od, Filipino mambabatok or
tattoo artist ·
February 18 – Tuulikki Pietilä,
Finnish artist (d. 2009) ·
February 19 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967) ·
Juan Vicente
Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist, composer ·
Wilma Vinsant, American flight nurse who
served during WWII (d. 1945) ·
February 21 – Lucille Bremer, American actress, dancer
(d. 1996) ·
February 23 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai,
2-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1985) ·
Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993) ·
Brenda Joyce,
American actress (d. 2009) ·
John Connally, Governor of Texas (d. 1993) ·
Laine Mesikäpp,
Estonian actress, singer and folk song collector (d. 2012) ·
February 28 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director,
cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) ·
March 2 ·
Max Webb, Polish-American real estate
developer and philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Babiker Awadalla, Sudanese politician ·
Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor,
bandleader, musician, and television producer; co-founder of Desilu Productions (d. 1986) ·
Laurie Baker, English architect (d. 2007) ·
Harriet Frank Jr.,
American film writer, producer ·
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 ·
Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977) ·
Ruth Dayan, Israeli fashion designer ·
Will Eisner, American cartoonist (d. 2005) ·
March 9 – Jack Laver, Tasmanian cricketer (d. 2017) ·
March 10 – Zbigniew
Ścibor-Rylski, Polish Brigadier General (d. 2018) ·
March 12 ·
Giovanni Benedetti,
Italian Catholic prelate (d. 2017) ·
Leonard Chess, American record company
executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969) ·
Googie Withers, British actress (d. 2011) ·
March 16 – Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian royal and
politician (d. 2018) ·
March 18 – Mircea
Ionescu-Quintus, Romanian politician (d. 2017) ·
March 19 ·
Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950) ·
Peggy Ahern, American actress (d. 2012) ·
Sardon Jubir, Malaysian politician (d. 1985) ·
March 20 ·
Haddon Donald, New Zealand Army Lieutenant
Colonel and politician (d. 2018) ·
Vera Lynn, English actress, singer ·
March 21 ·
Anton Coppola, American opera conductor,
composer ·
Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist,
politician, and Military Chief of Staff (d. 1984) ·
March 22 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) ·
March 23 – Kenneth Tobey, American actor (d. 2002) ·
March 24 ·
Constantine Andreou,
Brazilian-Greek artist (d. 2007) ·
John Kendrew, British molecular biologist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (d. 1997) ·
March 26 – Rufus Thomas, American singer (d. 2001) ·
March 27 ·
Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002) ·
Takumi Furukawa, Japanese film director
(d. 2018) ·
March 29 – Man o' War, champion thoroughbred racehorse
(d. 1947) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Sydney Newman, Canadian-born television
producer (d. 1997) ·
Leon Janney, American actor (d. 1980) ·
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 ·
John Whitney,
American animator, composer, and pioneer in computer animation (d. 1995) ·
Hubertus Ernst, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate
(d. 2017) ·
April 9 – Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002) ·
April 10 ·
Ambrose Schindler,
American football player, actor ·
Robert Burns
Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1979) ·
April 11 – Morton Sobell, American spy ·
April 12 – Džemal Bijedić,
Yugoslav politician (d. 1977) ·
April 13 ·
Robert O. Anderson,
American businessman, founder of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007) ·
Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (d. 2011) ·
Li Rui,
Chinese Communist Party politician ·
April 14 ·
Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998) ·
Marvin Miller, American baseball executive
(d. 2012) ·
April 15 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982) ·
April 16 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007) ·
April 22 – Yvette Chauviré,
French ballerina (d. 2016) ·
April 23 – Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008) ·
April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer
(d. 1996) ·
April 26 ·
I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect ·
Virgil Trucks, American baseball player
(d. 2013) ·
April 28 ·
Minoru Chiaki, Japanese actor (d. 1999) ·
Robert
Cornthwaite, American actor (d. 2006) ·
April 29 ·
Celeste Holm, American actress (d. 2012) ·
Maya Deren, Russian-American experimental
filmmaker (d. 1961) ·
April 30 – Bea Wain, American singer (d. 2017) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
John Beradino, American baseball player and
actor, best known for his role in General Hospital (d. 1996) ·
Ulric Cross, Trinidadian judge, diplomat and
war hero (d. 2013) ·
Danielle Darrieux,
French singer, actress (d. 2017) ·
Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator (d. 2012) ·
May 3 ·
José Del Vecchio,
Venezuelan physician, youth baseball promoter (d. 1990) ·
George Gaynes, Finland-born American actor
(d. 2016) ·
Kiro Gligorov, 1st President
of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012) ·
May 6 – Morihiro Higashikuni,
Japanese prince (d. 1969) ·
May 7 – David Tomlinson, English actor (d. 2000) ·
May 8 ·
John Anderson, Jr.,
American politician (d. 2014) ·
Kenneth N. Taylor,
translator of The Living Bible (d. 2005) ·
May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian football coach
(d. 2005) ·
May 14 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003) ·
May 15 – Jerzy Duszyński,
Polish actor (d. 1978) ·
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 ·
Sid Melton, American actor (d. 2011) ·
Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999) ·
May 24 – Florence Knoll, American architect,
furniture designer ·
May 25 – Theodore Hesburgh,
American priest, educator (d. 2015) ·
May 28 ·
Papa John Creach, African-American fiddler
(d. 1994) ·
Marshall Reed, American film, television
actor (d. 1980) ·
May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President
of the United States (d. 1963) ·
May 31 – Zilka Salaberry, Brazilian actress (d. 2005) June[edit] ·
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 ·
Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004) ·
Howard Metzenbaum,
American Jewish Senator from Ohio (d. 2008) ·
June 6 – Kirk Kerkorian, Armenian-American
businessman, billionaire (d. 2015) ·
June 7 ·
Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American writer
(d. 2000) ·
Dean Martin, American actor, singer
(d. 1995) ·
June 8 ·
George D. Wallace,
American actor (d. 2005) ·
Byron White, American football player and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 2002) ·
June 9 – Eric Hobsbawm, British historian (d. 2012) ·
June 10 ·
Ruari McLean, British typographer (d. 2006) ·
DeWitt Hale, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Al Schwimmer, American-Israeli businessman
(d. 2011) ·
June 13 – Augusto Roa Bastos,
Paraguayan writer (d. 2005) ·
June 14 ·
Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, writer ·
Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
(d. 2007) ·
June 15 ·
John Fenn,
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2010) ·
Lash LaRue, American cowboy actor (d. 1996) ·
June 16 ·
Phaedon Gizikis, President of Greece
(d. 1999) ·
Katharine Graham, American publisher
(d. 2001) ·
Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009) ·
June 17 ·
Ben Bubar, American presidential candidate
(d. 1995) ·
Huang Feili, Chinese conductor, musical
educator (d. 2017) ·
June 18 ·
Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981) ·
Ross Elliott, American actor (d. 1999) ·
Erik Ortvad, Danish artist (d. 2008) ·
June 19 ·
Robert Baker Aitken,
American Zen Buddhist teacher (d. 2010) ·
Robert Karnes, American actor (d. 1979) ·
June 21 – Leslie Shepard, British author, archivist,
and curator (d. 2004) ·
June 24 ·
Lucy Jarvis,
American television producer ·
Ahmad Sayyed Javadi,
Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician (d. 2013) ·
June 25 ·
Nils Karlsson, Swedish Olympic cross-country
skier (d. 2012) ·
Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018) ·
June 26 – Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist ·
June 28 – A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist,
playwright, and biographer ·
June 29 – Ling Yun,
Chinese politician (d. 2018) ·
June 30 ·
Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975) ·
Lena Horne, American singer, actress
(d. 2010) ·
Willa Kim, American costume designer,
actress (d. 2016) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Virginia Dale, American actress, dancer
(d. 1994) ·
Álvaro Domecq y Díez,
Spanish aristocrat (d. 2005) ·
Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist
(d. 2004) ·
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 ·
Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner,
athletics coach (d. 2004) ·
Heribert Barrera, Spanish chemist,
politician (d. 2011) ·
July 7 ·
Larry O'Brien, American politician, former
NBA commissioner (d. 1990) ·
Fidel Sánchez
Hernández, President of El
Salvador (d. 2003) ·
July 8 – Pamela Brown,
English actress (d. 1975) ·
July 9 ·
Krystyna Dańko,
Polish orphan, survivor of the Holocaust ·
Peter Moyes, Australian educator (d. 2007) ·
Frank Wayne, American television game show
producer (d. 1988) ·
July 10 ·
Şeref Alemdar, Turkish basketball
player ·
Don Herbert, American television
personality, better known as Mr. Wizard (d. 2007) ·
Dayton S. Mak, U.S. diplomat (d. 2018) ·
Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998) ·
July 11 – Per Carleson, Swedish épée fencer (d. 2004) ·
July 12 ·
Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier, pilot
(d. 2014) ·
Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009) ·
Satyendra Narayan
Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006) ·
July 14 – Frank Vigar, English cricketer (d. 2004) ·
July 15 ·
Robert Conquest, British historian (d. 2015) ·
Joan Roberts, American actress (d. 2012) ·
Reidar Liaklev, Norwegian speed skater
(d. 2006) ·
July 16 – Alex Urban, American football player
(d. 2007) ·
July 17 ·
Lou Boudreau, American professional baseball
player, manager (d. 2001) ·
Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian
(d. 2012) ·
Generoso Jiménez,
Cuban trombone player (d. 2007) ·
Gus Arriola, Mexican-American comic strip
cartoonist, animator (d. 2008) ·
Kenan Evren, former President of Turkey (d. 2015) ·
July 18 ·
Ángel Federico
Robledo, Argentine minister (d. 2004) ·
Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008) ·
Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British
economics professor ·
July 19 – William Scranton, American politician
(d. 2013) ·
July 20 ·
Harold Faragher, English cricketer (d. 2006) ·
Paul Hubschmid, Swiss actor (d. 2001) ·
July 21 ·
Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer, jurist
(d. 2005) ·
Sidney Leviss, American Democratic
politician (d. 2007) ·
July 22 ·
Larry Hooper, American singer, musician
(d. 1983) ·
Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia
(d. 1984) ·
July 23 – Omar Yoke Lin Ong,
Malaysian politician, diplomat and businessman (d. 2010) ·
July 24 ·
Henri Betti, French composer, pianist
(d. 2005) ·
Clarence F. Stephens,
American mathematician, educator (d. 2018) ·
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[edit] ·
August 3 ·
Les Elgart, American bandleader (d. 1995) ·
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) ·
Vasiľ Biľak, former Slovak
Communist leader (d. 2014) ·
Dik Browne, American cartoonist, creator
of Hägar the Horrible (d. 1989) ·
Jack Smith, American football end ·
August 12 – Marjorie Reynolds,
American actress (d. 1997) ·
August 14 – Marty Glickman, American sports announcer
(d. 2001) ·
Jack Lynch, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 1999) ·
Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Roman Catholic Archbishop
(d. 1980) ·
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 ·
John Lee Hooker, African-American musician
(d. 2001) ·
Raymond G. Perelman,
American businessman ·
August 23 – Hu Chengzhi, Chinese palaeontologist,
palaeoanthropologist (d. 2018) ·
Lou van Burg, Dutch television personality,
game show host (d. 1986) ·
Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film
director, producer (d. 2008) ·
Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress (d. 2011) ·
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[edit] ·
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) ·
Xerardo Fernández
Albor, Spanish politician and physician (d. 2018) ·
Leonard Cheshire, British war hero (d. 1992) ·
John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2013) ·
Tetsuo Hamuro, Japanese swimmer (d. 2005) ·
September 10 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean diplomat, explorer
and journalist (d. 2009) ·
Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008) ·
Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor
(d. 2012) ·
Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of
the Philippines (d. 1989) ·
Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American writer
(d. 1996) ·
Daniel Wildenstein,
French art dealer, racehorse owner (d. 2001) ·
September 13 – Robert Ward,
American composer (d. 2013) ·
Carola B. Eisenberg,
American psychiatrist, educator ·
Buddy Jeannette, American basketball player,
coach (d. 1998) ·
September 17 – Henry Pearce,
Australian politician ·
September 18 – June Foray, American voice actress best
known for "Rocky and Bullwinkle" (d. 2017) ·
Red Auerbach, American basketball coach,
official (d. 2006) ·
Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994) ·
September 22 – Anna Campori, Italian actress (d. 2018) ·
September 23 – El Santo, Mexican professional wrestler and
actor (d. 1984) ·
September 24 – Otto Günsche, German general (d. 2003) ·
September 25 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player
(d. 2006) ·
September 27 – Louis Auchincloss,
American novelist (d. 2010) October[edit] ·
Christian de Duve,
English-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013) ·
Charles Drake,
American actor (d. 1994) ·
Francis
Jackson, English organist, composer ·
October 3 – Les Schwab, American businessman (d. 2007) ·
October 5 – Allen Ludden, American game show host
(d. 1981) ·
October 7 – June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006) ·
Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player,
manager (d. 1976) ·
Rodney Robert Porter,
English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985) ·
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) ·
Adele Stimmel Chase,
American artist (d. 2000) ·
Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004) ·
Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr., American historian, political commentator
(d. 2007) ·
October 16 – Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966) ·
Martin
Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) ·
Marsha
Hunt, American actress ·
October 19 – Walter Munk, Austrian-born American
oceanographer ·
Jean-Pierre Melville,
French film director, film producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) ·
X. M. Sellathambu,
Sri Lankan Tamil politician ·
October 21 – Dizzy Gillespie, African-American musician
(d. 1993) ·
October 22 – Joan Fontaine, British-born actress
(d. 2013) ·
October 27 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist,
revolutionary (d. 1993) ·
Jack Soo, Japanese-American actor (d. 1979) ·
Honor Frost, pioneer in underwater
archaeology (d. 2010) ·
Shams Pahlavi, Iranian royal (d. 1996) ·
Paul Eberhard, Swiss bobsledder ·
Maurice Trintignant,
French race car driver (d. 2005) ·
October 31 – Gordon Steege, Australian military officer
(d. 2013) November[edit] ·
Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace
(d. 2016) ·
Clarence E. Miller,
American politician (d. 2011) ·
Durward Knowles, Bahamian sailor, Olympic
champion (d. 2018) ·
Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (d. 2012) ·
November 3 – Chung Sze-yuen, Hong Kong politician
(d. 2018) ·
Leonardo Cimino, American actor (d. 2012) ·
Virginia Field, British-born actress
(d. 1992) ·
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) ·
Madeleine Damerment,
French WWII heroine (d. 1944) ·
Tony F. Schneider,
American naval officer (d. 2010) ·
Hedley Jones, Jamaican musician (d. 2017) ·
Mohamed
Suffian Mohamed Hashim, Malaysian judge (d. 2000) ·
Jo Stafford, American traditional pop singer
(d. 2008) ·
Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Infanta
Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Austrian-born Spanish and Italian
princess (d. 2017) ·
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, 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) ·
Orville Rogers, American pilot, competitive
runner ·
Xiang Shouzhi, Chinese general (d. 2017) ·
November 29 – Pierre Gaspard-Huit,
French film director, screenwriter (d. 2017) December[edit] ·
December 4 – Arthur B. Singer, American wildlife artist
(d. 1990) ·
December 5 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (d. 2011) ·
Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
(d. 1977) ·
Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur
(d. 2008) ·
December 7 – Hurd Hatfield, American actor (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 12 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress ·
December 13 – John Hart,
American actor (d. 2009) ·
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee,
Pakistani poet, author and lexicographer (d. 2005) ·
Karl-Günther von
Hase, German diplomat ·
Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano ·
Arthur C. Clarke, British/Sri Lankan
science-fiction author, best known for co-writing the screenplay of 2001: A
Space Odyssey (d. 2008) ·
Beatrice
Wright, American psychologist ·
December 18 – Ossie Davis, African-American actor, film
director and activist (d. 2005) ·
December 19 – Paul Brinegar, American actor (d. 1995) ·
David Bohm, American-born physicist,
philosopher and neuropsychologist (d. 1992) ·
Petrus Hugo, South African WWII fighter pilot (d. 1986) ·
Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013) ·
Diana Athill, British literary editor,
novelist and memoirist ·
Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1985) ·
Marthe Gosteli, Swiss women's suffrage
campaigner (d. 2017) ·
Gene Rayburn, American television
personality, best known as the host of Match Game (d. 1999) ·
Lincoln Verduga Loor,
Ecuadorian journalist, politician (d. 2009) ·
Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer
and pilot ·
December 27 – Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (d. 2009) ·
December 28 – Ellis Clarke, 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 Date unknown[edit] ·
Hazza' al-Majali,
2-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1960) ·
Guillermo Sánchez Boix, Spanish cartoonist
(d. 1960) ·
Huang Yao, Chinese artist (d. 1987) Deaths[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 2 – Sir Edward Tylor,
English anthropologist (b. 1832) ·
January 4 – Frederick Selous, British explorer (b. 1851) ·
Frederick
William Borden, Canadian politician (b. 1847) ·
Hendrick
Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist, historian (b. 1834) ·
Sir
George Warrender, 7th Baronet, British admiral (b. 1860) ·
Mary Arthur McElroy, de
facto First
Lady of the United States (b. 1841) ·
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) ·
Fred Mace, American actor (b. 1878) ·
Joaquín Dicenta,
Spanish writer (b. 1862) ·
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[edit] Prince
Friedrich Karl of Prussia ·
April 1 – Scott Joplin, African-American composer,
pianist (b. 1867) ·
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 15 – János Murkovics,
Slovene teacher, writer in Hungary (b. 1839) ·
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 ·
Charles
Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829) ·
Radomir Putnik, Serbian field marshal
(b. 1847) ·
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 ·
Maksim
Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891) ·
René Dorme, French World War I fighter ace
(b. 1894) ·
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 – Karl Allmenröder,
German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1896) ·
June 29 – Frans Schollaert, 19th Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1851) ·
June 30 – Antonio de La
Gándara, French painter (b. 1861) July–September[edit] ·
July 2 – 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 ·
Stephen Luce, American admiral (b. 1827) ·
Ririkumutima, Queen regent of Burundi ·
July 31 ·
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (killed in
action) (b. 1887) ·
Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (killed in action)
(b. 1887) ·
August 3 ·
Stéphane Javelle,
French astronomer (b. 1864) ·
Ferdinand Georg
Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849) ·
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) ·
Boris Stürmer, Russian statesman, former
Prime Minister (b. 1848) ·
Madge Syers, British figure skater (b. 1881) ·
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 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834) ·
September 30 – Patricio
Montojo y Pasarón, Spanish admiral (b. 1839) October–December[edit] Prince
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein Saint Frances Xavier
Cabrini ·
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 – Queen Liliuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1838) ·
November 15 – Émile Durkheim,
French sociologist (b. 1858) ·
Neil Primrose,
British Liberal MP (killed in action) (b. 1882) ·
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) ·
December 8 – Mendele Mocher
Sforim, Russian Yiddish, Hebrew writer (b. 1836) ·
December 10 – Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1823) ·
December 12 – Andrew Taylor Still,
American father of osteopathy (b. 1828) ·
December 19 – Richard Maybery, British fighter ace (killed
in action) (b. 1895) ·
December 20 – Eric Campbell,
Scottish actor (accident) (b. 1879) ·
December 22 – Frances Xavier
Cabrini, first American canonized as a saint (b. 1850) ·
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[edit] ·
Physics – Charles Glover
Barkla ·
Chemistry –
not awarded ·
Medicine –
not awarded ·
Literature – Karl Adolph
Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan ·
Peace – International
Committee of the Red Cross References[edit] 1.
^ MacLeod, Duncan (2006-08-14). "UK train accidents in which passengers were
killed 1825-1924". PureCollector. Retrieved 2017-12-06. 2.
^ SA Legion – Atteridgeville Branch. "The SS Mendi – A Historical Background". Navy
News. South African Navy. Retrieved 20 November 2008. 3.
^ Pravda.[full citation
needed] 4.
^ L'Osservatore Romano,
Weekly Edition in English, 12/19 August 1998, p. 9. 5.
^ Seton-Watson, Christopher (1967). Italy from
Liberalism to Fascism: 1870 to 1925. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
pp. 468–9. 6.
^ "Greece declares war on Central Powers". history.com.
History. Archived from the original on 2015-04-01. 7.
^ "Minorpowers, Greece". firstworldwar.com.
Archived from the original on 2015-03-14. 8.
^ "Suffrage Wins by 100,000 in State; Kings by
32,640". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 7, 1917. p. 1. 9.
^ Naval
History & Heritage Command. "Jacob Jones". DANFS.
Retrieved 2009-04-24. Further reading[edit] ·
Williams,
John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and
Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 175–242. Primary sources and
year books[edit] ·
New International Year Book 1917 (1918), Comprehensive coverage of
world and national affairs, 904 pp ·
American
Year Book: 1917 (1918), large
compendium of facts about the U.S. online complete edition |
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