List of Famous people who died in 1917

Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, CB, MVO, ADC, DL was a British Army officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a courtesy title.

Lieutenant George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron was a British nobleman, army officer, peer, politician, and the ninth Baron Byron, as a grandson of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, who was the cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.

Felix Stone Moscheles was an English painter, writer, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto. He frequently painted genre scenes and portraits.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds. He was ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Major Hon. Henry Cecil Vane was the son and heir apparent of Henry de Vere Vane, 9th Baron Barnard of Raby Castle. He was wounded in World War I and died of those wounds shortly after, leaving his younger brother, Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard as heir to the Raby estates.

John Watson Foster was an American diplomat and military officer, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His highest public office was U.S. Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, although he also proved influential as a lawyer in technically private practice in the international relations sphere.

Viscount Yamao Yōzō was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who became an influential member of the Meiji era government of Japan.