List of Famous people who died in 1917
Herman Rottger
Hermann Jacoby
James Hamilton Peabody
James Hamilton Peabody was the 13th and 15th Governor of Colorado, and is noted by some for his public service in Cañon City and by others for his brutality in crushing the miners' strike in Cripple Creek in 1903–04.
Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE was a French mathematician.
Diamond Jim Brady
James Buchanan Brady, also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist of the Gilded Age.
James Dwight
James Dwight was an American tennis player who was known as the "Founding Father of American Tennis".
Amédée Bollée
Amédée-Ernest Bollée was a French bellfounder and inventor who specialized in steam cars. After 1867 he was known as "Amédée père" to distinguish him from his similarly named son, Amédée-Ernest-Marie Bollée (1867–1926).
Eduardo Di Capua
Eduardo Di Capua was a Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter.