List of Famous people who died in 1917

Charles Augustus Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington, known as Viscount Petersham from 1866 to 1881, was a British peer and successful polo player.

Gustav Friedrich Schmoller was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.

Adolph Wagner was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist and public finance scholar and advocate of agrarianism. Wagner's law of increasing state activity is named after him.

Hugh Percy Murray–Aynsley was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand.

Josef Schulz was a Czech architect, designer, teacher and restorer.

Joseph Jules Dejerine, was a French neurologist.

John Spencer Dunville, was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Gwynn was an Irish Syriacist. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College, Dublin from 1888 to 1907.