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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1917</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1917 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/219/000099919/">Adolf von Baeyer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td>Synthesized indigo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/612/000107291/">Emil von Behring</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td>Created diptheria innoculation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000029275/">Naaman Belkind</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td>Israeli spy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000111226/">Mackenzie Bowell</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Canada, 1894-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000099927/">Eduard Buchner</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td>Cell-free fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/477/000092201/">Buffalo Bill</a></td> <td><center>Performance Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1846</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td>Wild West showman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/981/000174459/">St. Frances Xavier Cabrini</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td>Missionaries of the Sacred Heart</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/239/000134834/">Joseph Choate</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1832</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1917</tt></td> <td>Attorney, ambassador</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/794/000028710/">Edgar Degas</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1917</tt></td> <td>Impressionist painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000094821/">George Dewey</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1837</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td>Sank the Spanish fleet at Manila</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/292/000168785/">William Duddell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1917</tt></td> <td>Electronic music</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/303/000099006/">Émile Durkheim</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1917</tt></td> <td>Rules of the Sociological Method</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/574/000168070/">John W. Foster</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1836</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1892-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/657/000092381/">Mata Hari</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1917</tt></td> <td>Framed by the Germans</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000196006/">T. E. Hulme</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1917</tt></td> <td>Modernist poet and critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/746/000101443/">Leander Starr Jameson</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1917</tt></td> <td>Last Prime Minister of Capetown</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/472/000177938/">Diamond Jim Brady</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1917</tt></td> <td>Larger-than-life millionaire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/690/000113351/">Scott Joplin</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1917</tt></td> <td>The King of Ragtime</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000206650/">John W. Kern</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1849</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/855/000125480/">Theodor Kocher</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1841</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1917</tt></td> <td>Thyroid surgeon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000118412/">George P. Lawrence</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1917</tt></td> <td>Congressman, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000114877/">Francis Ledwidge</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1917</tt></td> <td>Songs of the Fields</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/879/000161396/">Belva Lockwood</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1830</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1917</tt></td> <td>Feminist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000167890/">Wayne MacVeagh</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1833</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td>US Attorney General, 1881</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/514/000118160/">Octave Mirbeau</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1917</tt></td> <td>Le Jardin des supplices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/386/000167882/">William H. Moody</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1917</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/070/000102761/">Richard Olney</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1917</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1895-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000032257/">Auguste Rodin</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1917</tt></td> <td>Sculptor in bronze</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000084637/">Albert Pinkham Ryder</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td>Idyllic American painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/572/000173053/">Gideon Daniel Searle</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1846</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td>Founder of Searle Pharmaceuticals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000054805/">James Sheakley</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td>Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1893-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000205580/">Herbert Beerbohm Tree</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1917</tt></td> <td>Founder, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000099014/">Edward Tylor</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1832</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td>Founder of cultural anthropology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/609/000040489/">John William Waterhouse</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1849</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1917</tt></td> <td>British Pre-Raphaelite painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/989/000113650/">Ferdinand von Zeppelin</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1838</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td>Builder of rigid airships</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106109" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/771/000000771/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/771/771/s771.jpg" width=128> Sierpinsky and his Gasket</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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