List of Famous people who died in 1917

Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer. He is known for his operations in the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War and for conquering Baghdad in 1917.

Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca was the first Hispano elected for office as lieutenant governor in New Mexico's first election. His term as lieutenant governor was followed by his election as the second elected governor of New Mexico. This term was brief as he died shortly after taking office. He was the state's first elected Hispanic governor, and the first governor born in New Mexico after its annexation by the United States.

Alfred Eric Campbell, was a Scottish actor. He was a key member of Charlie Chaplin's film ensemble, invariably playing an intimidating bully, and appeared in eleven of Chaplin's films before he was killed in a car crash at the age of 37. He is the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald.

Joseph Hodges Choate was an American lawyer and diplomat. Choate was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history, including the Kansas prohibition cases, the Chinese exclusion cases, the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case, the Income Tax Suit, and the Samuel J. Tilden, Jane Stanford, and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere, he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.

Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe Meyer, was a French philologist.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager.

Ernst Stöhr (1860–1917) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, writer and amateur musician; one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession.

Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification on contracts.