List of Famous people who died in 1917

Brigadier-General Francis Charles Bridgeman JP, styled The Honourable from 1865, was a British Army officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.

Florence La Badie was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died at age 29 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Charles Owen Waterhouse was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Princess Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise Reuss-Köstritz was Tsaritsa (Queen) of Bulgaria and the second wife of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.

John Reynolds was a footballer who played for, among others, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Celtic. As an international he played five times for Ireland before it emerged that he was actually English and he subsequently played eight times for England. He is the only player to score for and against England and was the only player to play for both Ireland and England until Declan Rice did so 120 years later. He won the FA Cup with West Bromwich Albion in 1892 and was a prominent member of the successful Aston Villa team of the 1890s, winning three English League titles and two FA Cups, including a double in 1897.

Walburga "Wally" Neuzil was an Austrian nurse who was the lover and muse of the artist Egon Schiele between 1911 and 1915.

Jaber II Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah,, was the eighth ruler of Kuwait from the Al-Sabah line. He was the eldest son of Mubarak Al-Sabah and is the ancestor of the Al-Jaber branch of the Al-Sabah family. He ruled the country from 28 November 1915 to his death on 5 February 1917 and was succeeded by his brother, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah.

Mary McElroy was the sister of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, and served as a hostess for his administration (1881–1885). She assumed the role because Arthur's wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, had died nearly two years earlier.

Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen was a Danish politician, minister, army officer, businessman and inventor. He was War Minister in the Deuntzer Cabinet 1901–1905. Madsen was the father of the physician Thorvald Madsen.

William Conant Church was an American journalist and soldier. He was the co-founder and second president of the National Rifle Association.