List of Famous people who died in 1917

Émil August Goeldi, was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist. He was the father of Oswaldo Goeldi, a noted Brazilian engraver and illustrator.

David E. Finley was a United States Representative from South Carolina. He was born in Trenton, Arkansas. He attended the public schools of Rock Hill, South Carolina and Ebenezer, South Carolina and was graduated from the law department of South Carolina College at Columbia, South Carolina in 1885. He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in York, South Carolina.

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof was a Polish ophthalmologist, linguist and the creator of the international language Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language in the world.

Max Reichpietsch was a German sailor executed in 1917 for socialist agitation in the Imperial German Navy.

Kapitänleutnant Erich Giese was a German naval officer killed action during World War I.

Yikuang, formally known as Prince Qing, was a Manchu noble and politician of the Qing dynasty. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, an office created in May 1911 to replace the Grand Council.

Franklin "Frank" Rockefeller was an American businessman and member of the prominent Rockefeller family.

Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for Religious from 1916 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911. He was Apostolic Delegate to the United States from 1902 to 1911.

Baron Hans Gustaf von Blixen-Finecke was a Swedish officer and equestrian who won a bronze medal in dressage at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He died in an aeroplane crash in 1917.