List of Famous people who died in 1917

Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage.

Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist who worked in the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics, and an avid mountaineer.

Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk,, styled Baron Maltravers until 1856 and Earl of Arundel and Surrey between 1856 and 1860, was a British Unionist politician and philanthropist. He served as Postmaster General between 1895 and 1900, but is best remembered for his philanthropic work, which concentrated on Roman Catholic causes and the city of Sheffield.

Francis John Savile Foljambe was a British Liberal member of parliament.

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano was an influential German philosopher, psychologist, and Catholic priest whose work strongly influenced not only students Edmund Husserl, Sigmund Freud, Tomáš Masaryk, Rudolf Steiner, Alexius Meinong, Carl Stumpf, Anton Marty, Kazimierz Twardowski, and Christian von Ehrenfels, but many others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts.

Major Frank Widenham Goodden was a pioneering British aviator who served as chief test pilot for the Royal Aircraft Factory during the First World War.

Pasquale Villari was an Italian historian and politician.

Admiral Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.

George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby, styled The Honourable from 1843 to 1852, was a Scottish peer and politician.