Events
Below, the events of
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
have the "WWI" prefix.
January
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January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– WWI –
Battle of Rafa
The Battle of Rafa, also known as the Action of Rafah, fought on 9 January 1917, was the third and final battle to complete the recapture of the Sinai Peninsula by British forces during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the First World War. T ...
: The last substantial
Ottoman Army
The military of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire.
Army
The military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods. The foundation era covers the ...
garrison on the
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (now usually ) (, , cop, Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a l ...
is captured by the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
's
Desert Column
The Desert Column was a First World War British Empire army corps which operated in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign from 22 December 1916.There is no war diary for Desert Column for December. See The Column was commanded by Lieutenant General ...
.
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January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
–
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing ...
: Seven survivors of the
Ross Sea party
The Ross Sea party was a component of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Its task was to lay a series of supply depots across the Great Ice Barrier from the Ross Sea to the Beardmore Glacier, along the polar ...
were rescued after being stranded for several months.
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January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhamma ...
– Unknown saboteurs set off the
Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day
Lyndhurst, New Jersey
Lyndhurst is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 20,554, reflecting an increase of 1,171 (+6.0%) from the 19,383 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in tur ...
), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI.
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January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– The
Danish West Indies
The Danish West Indies ( da, Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands were a Danish colonization of the Americas, Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas ...
is sold to the United States for $25 million.
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January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
– WWI: United States President
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...
calls for "peace without victory" in Germany.
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January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
** WWI: British
armed merchantman
An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy and privateers, many merchantmen would be routinely armed, especially those engaging in lo ...
is sunk by mines off
Lough Swilly
Lough Swilly () in Ireland is a glacial fjord or sea inlet lying between the western side of the Inishowen, Inishowen Peninsula and the Fanad Peninsula, in County Donegal. Along with Carlingford Lough and Killary Harbour it is one of three glaci ...
(Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard.
** An anti-
prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in Sex work, sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, n ...
drive in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
occurs, and police close about 200 prostitution houses.
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January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
*1564 – ...
– The sea defences at the English village of
Hallsands
Hallsands is a village and beach in south Devon, England, in a precarious position between cliffs and the sea, between Beesands to the north and Start Point to the south.
History
The early history of Hallsands is unknown, but a chapel has exis ...
are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable.
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January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– The United States ends its search for
.
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January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
–
Pershing's troops in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
begin withdrawing back to the United States. They reach
Columbus, New Mexico
Columbus is a village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about north of the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of Battle of Columbus (1916), a 1916 attack by Mexico, ...
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
.
February
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February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
– WWI:
Atlantic U-boat Campaign:
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
announces its
U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ...
s will resume
unrestricted submarine warfare
Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules (also known as "cruiser rules") that call for warships to sea ...
, rescinding the '
''Sussex'' Pledge'.
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February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– WWI: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
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February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
**
Mata Hari
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by ...
is arrested in Paris for spying.
** WWI –
Raid on Nekhl
The Raid on Nekhl (February 1917) was the second of three battles by British forces to recapture the Sinai Peninsula during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) mounted forces travelled into the centr ...
: Units of the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
completely reoccupy the
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
ian Sinai Peninsula.
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February 21
Events Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The Prus ...
– British
troopship
A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable land troops directly on shore, typicall ...
is accidentally rammed and sunk off the
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight ( ) is a county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island of England. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents, the Isle of ...
, killing 646, mainly members of the
South African Native Labour Corps
The South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC) was a force of workers formed in 1916 in response to a British request for workers at French ports. About 25,000 South Africans joined the Corps. The SANLC was utilized in various menial noncombat tas ...
.
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February 24
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
* 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
* 13 ...
– WWI:
Walter Hines Page
Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I.
He founded the ''State Chronicle'', a newspaper in Rale ...
, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shown the intercepted
Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico, if Mexico will take sides with Germany, in case the United States declares war on Germany.
March
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March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
** WWI: The U.S. government releases the text of the
Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
**
Ōmuta, Japan, is founded by Hiroushi Miruku.
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March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
– The enactment of the
Jones Act grants
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans ( es, Puertorriqueños; or boricuas) are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants, and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants.
Overview
The culture held in common by most Puerto Ricans is referred t ...
United States citizenship.
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March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
**
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...
is
sworn in
Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to giv ...
for a second term, as President of the United States.
**
Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States in 1917. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representat ...
of
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
becomes the first woman member of the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...
.
*
March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
– "
Livery Stable Blues
"Livery Stable Blues" is a jazz composition copyrighted by Ray Lopez ''(né'' Raymond Edward Lopez; 1889–1979) and Alcide Nunez in 1917. It was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band on February 26, 1917, and, with the A side " Dixieland ...
", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on
February 26
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
, by the
Original Dixieland Jass Band
The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued. The group composed and recorded many jazz standards, the m ...
in the United States, becomes the first
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
recording commercially released. On
August 17
Events Pre-1600
* 309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of ...
the band records "
Tiger Rag
"Tiger Rag" is a jazz standard that was recorded and copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. It is one of the most recorded jazz compositions. In 2003, the 1918 recording of "Tiger Rag" was entered into the U.S. Library of Cong ...
".
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March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bour ...
– (N.S.) (
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
, O.S.) – The
February Revolution
The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...
begins in Russia: Women calling for bread in
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
start riots, which spontaneously spread throughout the city.
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March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a t ...
– The Province of
Batangas
Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas ( tl, Lalawigan ng Batangas ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas, and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and La ...
is formally founded, as one of the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
' first
encomienda
The ''encomienda'' () was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. The labourers, in theory, were provided with benefits by the conquerors for whom they laboured, including military ...
s.
*
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the venerati ...
–
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
:
Venustiano Carranza
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was a Mexican wealthy land owner and politician who was Governor of Coahuila when the constitutionally elected president Francisco I. Madero was overthrown in a February ...
is elected president of Mexico; the United States gives ''
de jure
In law and government, ''de jure'' ( ; , "by law") describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality. In contrast, ("in fact") describes situations that exist in reality, even if not legally ...
'' recognition of his government.
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March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
– The Russian
Duma
A duma (russian: дума) is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions.
The term ''boyar duma'' is used to refer to advisory councils in Russia from the 10th to 17th centuries. Starting in the 18th century, city dumas were for ...
declares a
Provisional Government
A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or f ...
. It was dissolved 4 months later.
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– WWI: The
Republic of China
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
terminates diplomatic relations with Germany.
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March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
(N.S.) (
March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
, O.S.) – Emperor
Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...
abdicates his throne and his son's claims. This is considered to be the end of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
, after 196 years.
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March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
(N.S.) (
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
, O.S.) –
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, r=Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas ...
refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government, under Prince
Georgy Lvov
Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (7/8 March 1925) was a Russian aristocrat and statesman who served as the first prime minister of republican Russia from 15 March to 20 July 1917. During this time he served as Russia's ''de facto'' head of stat ...
.
*
March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
– The
Georgian Orthodox Church
The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonly ...
restores the
autocephaly
Autocephaly (; from el, αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. The term is primarily used in Eastern O ...
, abolished by Imperial Russia in
1811
Events
January–March
* January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana.
* January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Brid ...
.
*
March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is ...
– WWI –
First Battle of Gaza
The First Battle of Gaza was fought on 26 March 1917 during the first attempt by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), which was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from th ...
: British
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
troops virtually encircle the Gaza garrison, but are then ordered to withdraw, leaving the city to the Ottoman defenders.
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March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &ndas ...
–
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld (; 4 February 1862 – 12 October 1953) was a Swedish politician, scholar, cabinet minister, Member of Parliament from 1923 to 1938 (first chamber), and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.
In 1890, he m ...
steps down as
Prime Minister of Sweden
The prime minister ( sv, statsminister ; literally translating to "Minister of State") is the head of government of Sweden. The prime minister and their cabinet (the government) exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are subj ...
; he is replaced by right-wing businessman and politician
Carl Swartz
Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz (5 June 1858 – 6 November 1926) was a Swedish right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from March to October 1917. He also served as Minister for Finance from 1906 to 1911. He married Dagmar L ...
.
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March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the
US Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands,. Also called the ''American Virgin Islands'' and the ''U.S. Virgin Islands''. officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory ...
, after paying $25 million to Denmark.
April
* April – ''
Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki
was once considered to be the first professional Japanese animated film ever made. It was made by Ōten Shimokawa in 1917 to be shown in a cinema, in this case, in the Asakusa Kinema Kurabu, a theater in Tokyo managed directly by the film compa ...
'', the first
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
, is released in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
*
April 2
Events Pre-1600
*1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Jo ...
– WWI: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
for a
declaration of war
A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state (polity), state announces existing or impending war activity against another. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the signing of a document) by an authorized party of a nationa ...
on Germany.
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April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*132 ...
– WWI: The United States
declares war on Germany.
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
(N.S.) (
March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is ...
, O.S.) – In
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, 40,000 ethnic
Estonians
Estonians or Estonian people ( et, eestlased) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language.
The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to other ...
demand
national autonomy
In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's ow ...
within
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
.
*
April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...
–
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– WWI:
Battle of Arras – British Empire troops make a significant advance on the Western Front but are unable to achieve a breakthrough.
*
April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...
–April 12, 12 – WWI: Canadian troops win the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
* April 10 – Eddystone explosion: an explosion at an ammunition plant near Chester, Pennsylvania, kills 139, mostly female workers.
* April 11 – WWI: First Brazilian Republic, Brazil severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
* April 12 (N.S.) (
March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &ndas ...
O.S.) – The Autonomous Governorate of Estonia is formed within
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
, from the Governorate of Estonia and the northern part of the Governorate of Livonia.
* April 16
** (N.S.) (April 3, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin arrives at the Finland Station in
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
** WWI: The Nivelle Offensive commences.
* April 17
** (N.S.) (April 4, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin's April Theses are published. They become very influential in the following July Days and Bolshevik Revolution.
** WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the Second Battle of Gaza. This unsuccessful frontal attack on strong Ottoman Empire, Ottoman defences along with the first battle, results in 10,000 casualties, the dismissal of force commander General Archibald Murray, and the beginning of the Stalemate in Southern Palestine.
** ''The Times'' and the ''Daily Mail'' (London newspapers both owned by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Lord Northcliffe) print atrocity propaganda of the supposed existence of a German Corpse Factory processing dead soldiers' bodies.
* April 19 – WWI: Army transport fires the United States' first shots in anger in the war when her gun crew drives off a German
U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ...
in the English Channel seven miles southeast of Beachy Head.
* April 26 – WWI: The Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, between France, Italy and the United Kingdom, to settle interests in the Middle East, is signed.
May
* May 3 – WWI: 1917 French Army mutinies begin.
* May 9 – WWI: The Nivelle Offensive is abandoned.
* May 13 – Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.
* May 13–October 13 (at monthly intervals) – 10-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto report experiencing a series of Marian apparitions near Fátima, Portugal, which become known as Our Lady of Fátima.
* May 15 – Robert Nivelle is replaced as Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in World War I, French Army, by Philippe Pétain.
* May 18 – WWI: The Selective Service Act of 1917, Selective Service Act passes the
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
, giving the President of the United States, President the power of conscription.
* May 21 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 in the United States.
* May 22
**The Commissioned Officer Corps of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey is established.
**Lynching of Ell Persons, Ell Persons is lynched in Memphis, in connection with the rape and murder of 16-year-old Antoinette Rappal.
* May 23
** A month of civil violence in Milan, Italy ends, after the Italian army forcibly takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war revolutionaries; 50 people are killed and 800 arrested.
** WWI: During the Stalemate in Southern Palestine the Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway, by the British
Desert Column
The Desert Column was a First World War British Empire army corps which operated in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign from 22 December 1916.There is no war diary for Desert Column for December. See The Column was commanded by Lieutenant General ...
, large sections of the railway line linking Beersheba to the main Ottoman Army, Ottoman desert base are destroyed.
* May 26 – A May–June 1917 tornado outbreak sequence, tornado strikes Mattoon, Illinois, causing devastation and killing 101 people.
* May 27 – WWI: 1917 French Army mutinies: Over 30,000 French troops refuse to go to the trenches at Missy-aux-Bois.
* May 27 – Pope Benedict XV Promulgation (Catholic canon law), promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, 1917 ''Code of Canon Law''.
June
* June 1 – 1917 French Army mutinies: A French infantry regiment seizes Missy-aux-Bois, and declares an anti-war military government. Other French army troops soon apprehend them.
* June 4 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall (Pulitzer Prize winner), Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer for a biography, (for ''Julia Ward Howe''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer for history, for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days.'' Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer for journalism, for his work for the ''New York World.''
* June 5 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States.
* June 7 – WWI: Battle of Messines (1917), Battle of Messines opens with the British Army detonating 24 ammonal Mining (military), mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest deliberate non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
* June 8 – Speculator Mine disaster: A fire at the Granite Mountain and Speculator ore mine, outside Butte, Montana, kills at least 168 workers.
* June 11 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates for the first time, being succeeded by his son Alexander of Greece, Alexander.
* June 13 – WWI: The first major German bombing raid on London by fixed-wing aircraft leaves 162 dead and 432 injured.
* June 15 – The United States enacts the Espionage Act of 1917, Espionage Act.
July
* July – The first Cottingley Fairies photographs are taken in Yorkshire, England, apparently depicting fairies (a hoax not admitted by the child creators until 1981).
* July 1
** East St. Louis riot: A labor dispute ignites a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which leaves 250 dead.
** Russian General Aleksei Brusilov, Brusilov begins the major Kerensky Offensive in Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.
* July 2 – WWI: Greece joins the war on the side of the Allies of World War I, Allies.
* July 6 – WWI:
** Battle of Aqaba: Arab Revolt, Arabian troops, led by T. E. Lawrence, capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
** The Conscription Crisis of 1917 in Canada leads to passage of the Military Service Act.
* July 7 – The Lions Clubs International is formed in the United States.
* July 8–July 13, 13 – WWI – Battles of Ramadi (1917)#First Battle of Ramadi, First Battle of Ramadi: British troops fail to take Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire; a majority of British casualties are due to extreme heat.
* July 12 – Bisbee Deportation: The Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1,000 suspected Industrial Workers of the World, IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona.
* July 16–July 17 – Russian Empire, Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austria-Hungary, Austrian front, and retreat to Ukraine; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
* July 16–July 18 – July Days: Serious clashes occur in
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
; Vladimir Lenin escapes to Grand Principality of Finland, Finland; Leon Trotsky is arrested.
* July 17 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a proclamation, stating that thenceforth the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname House of Windsor, Windsor, vice the Germanic bloodline of ''House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha'', which is an offshoot of the historic (800+ years) House of Wettin.
* July 20
** The Parliament of Finland, with a Social Democratic Party of Finland, Social Democratic majority, passes a "Sovereignty Act", declaring itself, as the representative of the Finnish people, sovereign over the Grand Principality of Finland. The Russian Provisional Government does not recognize the act, as it would have devolved Russian sovereignty over Finland, formerly exercised by the Russian Emperor as Grand Prince of Finland, and alter the relationship between Finland and Russia into a real union, with Russia solely responsible for the defence and foreign relations of an independent Finland.
** (July 7, O.S.) – Alexander Kerensky becomes premier of the Russian Provisional Government, replacing Prince
Georgy Lvov
Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (7/8 March 1925) was a Russian aristocrat and statesman who served as the first prime minister of republican Russia from 15 March to 20 July 1917. During this time he served as Russia's ''de facto'' head of stat ...
.
** The Russian Provisional Government enacts women's suffrage.
** The Corfu Declaration, which enables the establishment of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the Kingdom of Serbia.
* July 20–July 28 – WWI: Austria-Hungary, Austrian and German Empire, German forces repulse the Russian Empire, Russian advance into Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia.
* July 25 – Sir William Thomas White introduces Canada's first income tax as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
* July 28 – The Silent Parade is organized by the NAACP in New York City, to protest the East St. Louis riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Tennessee and Texas.
* July 30 – The Parliament of Finland is dissolved by the Russian Provisional Government. New elections are held in the autumn, resulting in a bourgeois majority.
* July 31 – WWI – Battle of Passchendaele ("Third Battle of Ypres"): Allied offensive operations commence in Flanders.
August
* August 2–August 3 – The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the WWI draft, takes place in central Oklahoma.
* August 2 – Edwin Harris Dunning, Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning]
lands his aircraft on the ship in Scapa Flow, Orkney. He is killed 5 days later during another landing on the ship.
* August 3 – The New York Guard is founded.
* August 10 – A general strike begins in Spain; it is smashed after 3 days with 70 left dead, hundreds of wounded and 2,000 arrests.
* August 14 – The
Republic of China
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
*
August 17
Events Pre-1600
* 309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of ...
– One of English literature's important meetings takes place, when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
* August 18 – The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 in Greece destroys 32% of the city, leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
* August 29 – WWI: The Military Service Act (Canada), Military Service Act is passed in the House of Commons of Canada, giving the Government of Canada the right to conscript men into the army.
September
* September 14 (September 1 Old Style) – Russia is declared a Russian Republic, republic by the
Provisional Government
A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or f ...
.
* September 23 – Leon Trotsky is elected Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.
* September 25 – The Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies) votes to side with the Bolsheviks.
* September 26–October 3 – WWI – Battle of Polygon Wood (part of the Battle of Passchendaele) near Ypres in Belgium: British and Australian troops capture positions from the Germans.
* September 28–September 29, 29 – WWI – Battles of Ramadi (1917)#Second Battle of Ramadi, Second Battle of Ramadi: British troops take Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire.
October
* October 4 – WWI: Battle of Broodseinde near Ypres – British Imperial forces overpower the 4th Army (German Empire), German 4th Army's defences.
* October 12 – WWI: First Battle of Passchendaele: – Allies fail to take a German defensive position, with the biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand, over 800 men and 45 officers are killed, roughly 1 in 1,000 of the nation's population at this time.
* October 12-October 19, 19 – WWI: Operation Albion – German forces land on and capture the West Estonian archipelago.
* October 13 – The Miracle of the Sun is reported at Fátima, Portugal.
* October 19
** Dallas Love Field Airport is opened in Texas.
**
Carl Swartz
Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz (5 June 1858 – 6 November 1926) was a Swedish right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from March to October 1917. He also served as Minister for Finance from 1906 to 1911. He married Dagmar L ...
leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history professor Nils Edén.
* October 23 – A Brazil during World War I, Brazilian ship is destroyed by a German U-Boat, encouraging Brazil to enter World War I.
* October 24 – WWI: Battle of Caporetto opens between the Kingdom of Italy and the Central Powers near Kobarid in the Austrian Littoral. It is the first major engagement for junior German officer Erwin Rommel.
* October 26 – WWI: First Brazilian Republic#Brazil in World War I, Brazil declares war against the Central Powers.
![Venceslau Brás declara guerra 1917](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Venceslau_Br%C3%A1s_declara_guerra_1917.jpg)
* October 27 – WWI: Battle of Buqqar Ridge – Ottoman Empire, Ottoman forces attack British Desert Mounted Corps units garrisoning El-Buqqar Ridge, during the last days of the Stalemate in Southern Palestine.
* October 31 – WWI: Battle of Beersheba (1917), Battle of Beersheba – The British XX Corps (United Kingdom), XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps (
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
) attack and capture Beersheba from Ottoman forces, ending the stalemate in Southern Palestine. The battle includes a rare (by this date) mounted Charge (warfare), charge, by Australian mounted infantry.
November
* November 1 – WWI:
** The British XXI Corps (United Kingdom), XXI Corps of the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
begins the Third Battle of Gaza.
** The British Desert Mounted Corps begins the Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe, in the direction of Hebron and Jerusalem.
* November 2 – Zionism: The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine (region), Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
* November 5 (N.S.) (October 23, O.S.) – Estonian and Russian Bolsheviks seize power in Tallinn, Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, two days before the October Revolution in
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
* November 6
** WWI – Second Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passendale, Passchendaele in Belgium (the battle concludes on November 10).
** WWI: The Battle of Hareira and Sheria is launched by the British XX Corps (United Kingdom), XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps, against the central Ottoman Army, Ottoman defences protecting the Gaza to Beersheba Road.
** Militants from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers, to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government.
* November 7
** (N.S.) (October 25, O.S.) – October Revolution in Russia: The workers of the St. Petersburg, Petrograd Workers' council, Soviet in Russia, led by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Alexander Kerensky, Kerensky
Provisional Government
A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or f ...
after less than eight months of rule. This immediately triggers the Russian Civil War.
** History of Iran, Iran (which has provided weapons for Russia) refuses to support the Allies of World War II, Allied Forces after the October Revolution.
** WWI – Third Battle of Gaza: The British Army XXI Corps (United Kingdom), XXI Corps occupies Gaza City, Gaza, after the Ottoman Army, Ottoman garrison withdraws.
** WWI: The Battle of Hareira and Sheria continues, when the XX Corps (United Kingdom), XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps capture Hareira and Sheria, marking the end of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Gaza to Beersheba line.
** Women's suffrage in the United States, Women's Suffrage in the United States: Women win the right to vote in New York State.
* November 8
** (N.S.) (October 26, O.S.) – Following the October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai is appointed People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Council of People's Commissars of the Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the first woman Cabinet (government), cabinet Minister (government), minister in Europe.
* November 13 – WWI:
** Battle of Mughar Ridge: The
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
attacks retreating Yildirim Army Group forces, resulting in the capture of 10,000 Ottoman Army, Ottoman prisoners, 100 guns and of Palestine (region), Palestine territory.
** The ANZAC Mounted Division (Desert Mounted Corps) successfully fights the Battle of Ayun Kara, in the aftermath of the Battle of Mughar Ridge against strong German Empire, German rearguards.
* November 15
** Night of Terror (event), "Night of Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes from the Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned.
** The Parliament of Finland passes another "Sovereignty Act", dissolving Russian sovereignty over Finland and effectively declaring Finland independent.
** (N.S.) (November 2, O.S.) – The Estonian Provincial Assembly, Provincial Assembly of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia declares itself the highest legal body in Estonia, in opposition to Bolsheviks.
* November 16
** WWI: Battle of Ayun Kara: The ANZAC Mounted Division occupies Jaffa.
** Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France.
* November 17
** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning (DD-37), USS ''Fanning'' and USS Nicholson (DD-52), USS ''Nicholson'' capture Imperial German Navy
U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ...
SM U-58, SM ''U-58'' off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U.S. ships take a submarine (which is then scuttled).
** WWI: The Battle of Jerusalem (1917) begins, with the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
launching attacks against Ottoman Army, Ottoman forces in the Judean Hills.
** The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom.
* November 19 – WWI: Battle of Caporetto ends with Austrian and German forces driving the Italian army to retreat 150 kilometres south to the Piave river. The Italians lose 13,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, around 270,000 taken prisoner (mostly willingly) and 50,000 Desertion, deserted; the government of Paolo Boselli collapses on November 29.
* November 20
** WWI: Battle of Cambrai (1917), Battle of Cambrai – British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions, but are soon beaten back.
** The Ukraine is declared a republic.
* November 22 – In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the National Hockey Association suspends operations.
* November 23 – The Bolsheviks release the full text of the previously secret Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 in ''Izvestia'' and ''Pravda''; it is printed in the ''Manchester Guardian'' on November 26.
* November 24 – A bomb kills 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history (until the September 11 attacks in 2001).
* November 25 – WWI: Battle of Ngomano – German forces defeat a Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano, on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
* November 26 – The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal, as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association.
* November 28 – WWI: The Bolsheviks offer peace terms to the German Empire, Germans.
December
* December – Annie Besant becomes president of the Indian National Congress.
* December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).
![Senate1917](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Senate1917.jpg)
* December 6
** The Senate of Finland officially declares the Independence of Finland, country's independence from
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
.
** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1,963 people, injures 9,000 and destroys part of the city (the biggest man-made explosion in recorded history until the Trinity (nuclear test), Trinity nuclear weapons testing, nuclear test in 1945).
** WWI: U.S. Navy destroyer is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine , killing 66 crew in the first significant American naval loss of the war.
* December 9 – WWI – Battle of Jerusalem (1917), Battle of Jerusalem: The British
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
accepts the surrender of Jerusalem by the mayor, Hussein al-Husayni, following the effective defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group.
* December 11 – WWI: General Edmund Allenby leads units of the British
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
into Jerusalem on foot through, the Jaffa Gate.
* December 17 – The ''Raad van Vlaanderen (World War I), Raad van Vlaanderen'' proclaims the independence of Flanders.
* December 20 (N.S.) (December 7, O.S.) – The Cheka, a predecessor to the KGB, is established in Russia.
* December 23 (N.S.) (December 10, O.S.) – A local plebiscite supports transferring Narva and Ivangorod (''Jaanilinn'') from the Petrograd Governorate, to the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia.
* December 25 – Jesse Lynch Williams's ''Why Marry?'', the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre, New York City.
* December 26 – United States President
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...
uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.
* December 30 – WWI: The
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
secures the victory at the Battle of Jerusalem (1917)#Defence of Jerusalem, Battle of Jerusalem, by successfully defending Jerusalem from numerous Yildirim Army Group counterattacks.
Date unknown
* The first edition of the World Book Encyclopedia – simply known as The World Book – is published by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, and is one of the first American encyclopedias to cover the major areas of knowledge to a mass audience.
* Women are permitted to stand in national elections in the Netherlands.
* The True Jesus Church is established in Beijing.
* Nakajima Aircraft Company, as predecessor of Subaru Corporation, Subaru, a car manufacturing company in Japan, founded in Ota, Gunma Prefecture.
Births
January
![Janio Quadros](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Janio_Quadros.png)
* January 2
** Vera Zorina, Norwegian dancer, actress (d. 2003)
** K. M. Mathew, Indian newspaper editor (d. 2010)
* January 3
** Liu Zhonghua, Chinese military officer (d. 2018)
** D. J. Finney, British statistician (d. 2018)
* January 5
** Adolfo Consolini, Italian discus thrower (d. 1969)
** Lucienne Day, British textile designer (d. 2010)
** Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat, prominent socialite (d. 2006)
** Jane Wyman, American actress, philanthropist, and first wife of Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)
* January 6 – Koo Chen-fu, Nationalist Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
** Saul Cherniack, Canadian politician, lawyer (d. 2018)
** Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
* January 12 – Jimmy Skinner, American hockey coach (d. 2007)
* January 15 – K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor, comedian (d. 1994)
* January 17 – M. G. Ramachandran, Tamil Nadu chief minister, actor (d. 1987)
* January 21 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M (d. 2002)
* January 24 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)
*
January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
** Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist, chemist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2003)
** Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
*
January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
*1564 – ...
– Louis Zamperini, American prisoner of war (World War II), Olympic distance athlete (1936), and Christian evangelist (d. 2014)
* January 29 – John Raitt, American actor, singer (d. 2005)
February
![Burgess1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Burgess1.jpg)
* February 2 – Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese leader (d. 2018)
*
February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d. 1994)
* February 4 – Yahya Khan, 3rd President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
* February 6
** John Franzese, Italian-born American prisoner (d. 2020)
** Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 2016)
* February 9 – Joseph Conombo, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (d. 2008)
* February 11
** T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976)
** Sidney Sheldon, American author, television writer (d. 2007)
* February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2011)
* February 17
** Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (d. 2002)
** Whang-od, Filipino ''mambabatok'' or tattoo artist
* February 18 – Tuulikki Pietilä, Finnish artist (d. 2009)
* February 19 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)
* February 20 – Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist, composer (d. 2019)
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The Prus ...
– Lucille Bremer, American actress, dancer (d. 1996)
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
– Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, 2-time prime minister of Jordan (d. 1985)
* February 25
** Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
** Brenda Joyce (actress), Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009)
* February 27
** John Connally, Governor of Texas (d. 1993)
** Laine Mesikäpp, Estonian actress, singer and folk song collector (d. 2012)
* February 28 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007)
March
![CyrusVanceSoS](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/CyrusVanceSoS.jpg)
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
** Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
** Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994)
*
March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
** Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician, and television producer; co-founder of Desilu Productions (d. 1986)
** Babiker Awadalla, 8th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 2019)
** Max Webb, Polish-American real estate developer and philanthropist (d. 2018)
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
* March 5 – Raymond P. Shafer, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2006)
* March 6
** Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
** Will Eisner, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
** Giovanni Benedetti, Italian Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
** Leonard Chess, Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
** Googie Withers, British actress (d. 2011)
*
March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
– Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian royal and politician (d. 2018)
* March 18 – Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, Romanian politician (d. 2017)
* March 19
** Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
** Sardon Jubir, Malaysian politician (d. 1985)
* March 20
** Haddon Donald, New Zealand Army Lieutenant Colonel and politician (d. 2018)
** Dame Vera Lynn, English actress, singer (d. 2020)
* March 21 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician, and Military Chief of Staff (d. 1984)
* March 22 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
* March 24
** Constantine Andreou, Brazilian-Greek artist (d. 2007)
** John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1997)
*
March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is ...
– Rufus Thomas, American singer (d. 2001)
* March 27 – Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
April
![Robert Bloch with His Award](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Robert_Bloch_with_His_Award.jpg)
* April 1 – Sydney Newman, Canadian-born television producer (d. 1997)
* April 5 – Robert Bloch, American writer (d. 1994)
* April 7
** R. G. Armstrong, American actor (d. 2012)
** Mongo Santamaría, Cuban jazz musician (d. 2003)
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– Hubertus Ernst, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
*
April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...
– Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
* April 10 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
* April 11 – Morton Sobell, American spy (d. 2018)
* April 12 – Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslav politician (d. 1977)
* April 13
** Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
** Li Rui (politician), Li Rui, Chinese Communist Party politician (d. 2019)
* April 14 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998)
* April 15 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
* April 16 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
* April 22 – Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016)
* April 23 – Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008)
* April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer (d. 1996)
* April 26 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect (d. 2019)
* April 28 – Minoru Chiaki, Japanese actor (d. 1999)
* April 29
** Bernard Blossac, French fashion illustrator (d. 2002)
** Celeste Holm, American actress (d. 2012)
** Maya Deren, Russian-American experimental filmmaker (d. 1961)
May
![John F](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/John_F._Kennedy%2C_White_House_color_photo_portrait.jpg)
* May 1
** John Beradino, American baseball player and actor, best known for his role in ''General Hospital'' (d. 1996)
** Ulric Cross, Trinidadian judge, diplomat and war hero (d. 2013)
** Danielle Darrieux, French singer, actress (d. 2017)
** Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator (d. 2012)
* May 3
** José Del Vecchio, Venezuelan physician, youth baseball promoter (d. 1990)
** George Gaynes, Finland-born American actor (d. 2016)
** Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)
* May 6 – Morihiro Higashikuni, Japanese prince (d. 1969)
* May 7 – David Tomlinson, English actor (d. 2000)
* May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d. 2005)
* May 14 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
* May 15 – Jerzy Duszyński (actor), Jerzy Duszyński, Polish actor (d. 1978)
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer, photographer (d. 1986)
* May 20 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
* May 21 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor, best known for his role in ''Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Perry Mason'' (d. 1993)
* May 22 – Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
* May 24 – Florence Knoll, American architect, furniture designer (d. 2019)
* May 28
** Papa John Creach, African-American fiddler (d. 1994)
** Marshall Reed, American film, television actor (d. 1980)
* May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
* May 31 – Zilka Salaberry, Brazilian actress (d. 2005)
June
![Susan Hayward - 1940s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Susan_Hayward_-_1940s.jpg)
* June 1 – William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
* June 4 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
* June 6 – Kirk Kerkorian, Armenian-American businessman, billionaire (d. 2015)
* June 7
** Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American writer (d. 2000)
** Dean Martin, American actor, singer (d. 1995)
* June 8 – Byron White, American American football, football player and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2002)
* June 9 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British historian (d. 2012)
* June 10 – Ruari McLean, Scottish-born typographer (d. 2006)
* June 13 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d. 2005)
* June 14
** Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, writer
** Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)
* June 15 – John Fenn (chemist), John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
* June 16
** Phaedon Gizikis, President of Greece (d. 1999)
** Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
** Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
* June 17 – Huang Feili, Chinese conductor, musical educator (d. 2017)
* June 18
** Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
** Erik Ortvad, Danish artist (d. 2008)
* June 24 – Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician (d. 2013)
* June 25
** Nils Karlsson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2012)
** Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
* June 26 – Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019)
* June 29 – Ling Yun (politician), Ling Yun, Chinese politician (d. 2018)
* June 30
** Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
** Lena Horne, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
July
![Phyllis Diller Allan Warren](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Phyllis_Diller_Allan_Warren.jpg)
* July 1
** Shyam Saran Negi, Indian schoolteacher (d. 2022)
** Virginia Dale, American actress, dancer (d. 1994)
** Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2005)
* July 2 – André Lafargue, French journalist, resistance fighter (d. 2017)
* July 4 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
* July 6
** Heribert Barrera, Spanish chemist, politician (d. 2011)
** Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner, athletics coach (d. 2004)
* July 7
** Larry O'Brien, American politician, former NBA commissioner (d. 1990)
** Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
* July 9
** Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of the Holocaust (d. 2019)
** Peter Moyes, Australian educator (d. 2007)
* July 10
** Şeref Alemdar, Turkish basketball player (d. unknown)
** Dayton S. Mak, U.S. diplomat (d. 2018)
** Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
* July 11 – Per Carleson, Swedish épée fencer (d. 2004)
* July 12
** Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier, pilot (d. 2014)
** Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009)
** Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006)
* July 15
** Robert Conquest, British historian (d. 2015)
** Reidar Liaklev, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2006)
** Joan Roberts, American actress (d. 2012)
* July 17
** Gus Arriola, Mexican-American comic strip cartoonist, animator (d. 2008)
** Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian (d. 2012)
** Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
** Generoso Jiménez, Cuban trombone player (d. 2007)
** Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan revolutionary communist politician, journalist and writer (d. 1979)
* July 18
** Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
** Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (d. 2019)
* July 19 – William Scranton, American politician (d. 2013)
* July 20 – Paul Hubschmid, Swiss actor (d. 2001)
* July 21
** Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer, jurist (d. 2005)
** Sidney Leviss, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
* July 22
** Larry Hooper, American singer, musician (d. 1983)
** Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1984)
* July 23 – Omar Yoke Lin Ong, Malaysian politician, diplomat and businessman (d. 2010)
* July 24 – Henri Betti, French composer, pianist (d. 2005)
* July 25 – Fritz Honegger, 79th president of Switzerland (d. 1999)
* July 26 – Lorna Gray, American actress (d. 2017)
* July 27 – Wu Zhonghua, Chinese physicist, pioneered three-dimensional flow theory (d. 1992)
* July 30 – Keith Rae (footballer), Keith Rae, Australian rules footballer (d. 2021)
August
![Denis Healey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Denis_Healey.jpg)
* August 6 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
* August 7 – Raja Perempuan Zainab, Queen of Malaysia (d. 1993)
* August 8 – Earl Cameron (actor), Earl Cameron, Bermudian actor (d. 2020)
* August 9 – Jao Tsung-I, Chinese-born Hong Kong scholar, poet, calligrapher and painter (d. 2018)
* August 11 – Vasiľ Biľak, Slovak Communist leader (d. 2014)
* August 12 – Marjorie Reynolds, American actress (d. 1997)
* August 15
** Jack Lynch, 5th Taoiseach, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 1999)
** Óscar Romero, El Salvador, Salvadoran Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 1980)
*
August 17
Events Pre-1600
* 309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of ...
– Zvi Keren, American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer (d. 2008)
* August 18 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006)
* August 21 – Esther Cooper Jackson, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2022)
* August 22 – John Lee Hooker, African-American musician (d. 2001)
* August 23
** Hu Chengzhi, Chinese palaeontologist, palaeoanthropologist (d. 2018)
** Miguel Alvarez del Toro, Mexican biologist (d. 1996)
* August 25
** Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director, producer (d. 2008)
** Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress (d. 2011)
** Lou van Burg, Dutch television personality, game show host (d. 1986)
* August 26 – William French Smith, 74th United States Attorney General (d. 1990)
* August 28 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
* August 29 – Isabel Sanford, African-American actress, best known for her role in ''The Jeffersons'' (d. 2004)
* August 30 – Denis Healey, English politician, author (d. 2015)
September
![100 años del natalicio del Santo -i---i- (36184746106) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/100_a%C3%B1os_del_natalicio_del_Santo_-i---i-_%2836184746106%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* September 5 – Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (d. 2012)
* September 6 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
* September 7
** Xerardo Fernández Albor, Spanish politician and physician (d. 2018)
** Leonard Cheshire, British war hero (d. 1992)
** John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
** Tetsuo Hamuro, Japanese swimmer (d. 2005)
* September 10 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean diplomat, explorer and journalist (d. 2009)
* September 11
** Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
** Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (d. 2012)
** Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
** Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American writer (d. 1996)
** Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer, racehorse owner (d. 2001)
* September 17 – Henry Pearce (politician), Henry Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1992)
* September 18 – June Foray, American voice actress (d. 2017)
* September 20
** Red Auerbach, American basketball coach, official (d. 2006)
** Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994)
* September 22 – Anna Campori, Italian actress (d. 2018)
* September 23
**Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (d. 2006)
**El Santo, Mexican professional wrestler and actor (d. 1984)
* September 24 – Otto Günsche, German general (d. 2003)
* September 26 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese phenomenologist and Marxist philosopher (d. 1993)
* September 28 – Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (d. 2005)
October
![Joan Fontaine in The Women trailer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Joan_Fontaine_in_The_Women_trailer.jpg)
* October 2
** Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013)
** Charles Drake (actor), Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
* October 6 – Fannie Lou Hamer, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
* October 7 – June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
* October 8 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
* October 10 – Thelonious Monk, African-American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
* October 15 – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian, political commentator (d. 2007)
* October 17
** Martin Donnelly (cricketer), Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
** Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Marsha Hunt, American actress (d. 2022)
* October 19 – Walter Munk, Austrian-born American oceanographer (d. 2019)
* October 20
** Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director, film producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
** Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer (d. 2013)
** X. M. Sellathambu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 1984)
* October 21 – Dizzy Gillespie, African-American musician (d. 1993)
* October 22 – Joan Fontaine, British-born actress (d. 2013)
* October 24 – Fang Huai, Chinese military officer and major general of PLA (d. 2019)
* October 27 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist, revolutionary (d. 1993)
* October 28
** Shams Pahlavi, Iranian royal (d. 1996)
** Jack Soo, Japanese-American actor (d. 1979)
* October 30
** Paul Eberhard, Swiss bobsledder (d. 1983)
** Maurice Trintignant, French racing driver (d. 2005)
* October 31 – Gordon Steege, Australian military officer (d. 2013)
November
![Indira Gandhi in 1967](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Indira_Gandhi_in_1967.jpg)
* November 1 – Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace (d. 2016)
* November 2
** Durward Knowles, Bahamian sailor, Olympic champion (d. 2018)
** Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (d. 2012)
* November 3 – Chung Sze-yuen, Hong Kong politician (d. 2018)
* November 4 – Virginia Field, British-born actress (d. 1992)
* November 5 – Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator (d. 2000)
* November 10 – Koun Wick, Cambodian statesman and diplomat (d. 1999)
* November 11 – Madeleine Damerment, French WWII heroine (d. 1944)
* November 12
** Hedley Jones, Jamaican musician (d. 2017)
** Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim, Malaysian judge (d. 2000)
** Jo Stafford, American traditional pop singer (d. 2008)
* November 13 – Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Austrian-born Spanish and Italian princess (d. 2017)
* November 14 – Park Chung-hee, 3rd president of South Korea (d. 1979)
* November 18 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor, singer (d. 1957)
* November 19 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
* November 22 – Andrew Huxley, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012)
* November 24 – Shabtai Rosenne, British-born Israeli diplomat, jurist (d. 2010)
* November 28
** Orville Rogers, American pilot, competitive runner (d. 2019)
** Xiang Shouzhi, Chinese general (d. 2017)
* November 29 – Pierre Gaspard-Huit, French film director, screenwriter (d. 2017)
December
![Sir Ellis Clarke (cropped 2)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Sir_Ellis_Clarke_%28cropped_2%29.jpg)
* December 5 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (d. 2011)
* December 6 – Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
* December 7 – Hurd Hatfield, American actor (d. 1998)
* December 8 – Ian Johnson (cricketer), Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (d. 1998)
* December 9 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
* December 10 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
* December 15 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Pakistani poet, author and lexicographer (d. 2005)
* December 16
** Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science-fiction author, best known for co-writing the screenplay of ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (d. 2008)
** Beatrice Wright (psychologist), Beatrice Wright, American psychologist (d. 2018)
* December 18 – Ossie Davis, African-American actor, film director and activist (d. 2005)
* December 19 – Paul Brinegar, American actor (d. 1995)
* December 20
** David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
** Petrus Hugo, South African Second World War, WWII fighter pilot (d. 1986)
** Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013)
* December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
* December 22 – Marthe Gosteli, Swiss women's suffrage campaigner (d. 2017)
* December 25
** Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist, politician (d. 2009)
** Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer and pilot (d. 2019)
* December 28 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010)
* December 29 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005)
* December 30 – Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004)
* December 31 – Suzy Delair, French actress, singer (d. 2020)
Date unknown
* Hazza' al-Majali, 22nd & 32nd Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1960)
Deaths
January–March
![Emil von Behring sitzend](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Emil_von_Behring_sitzend.jpg)
* January 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, Sir Edward Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
* January 4 – Frederick Selous, British explorer (b. 1851)
* January 6
** Frederick William Borden, Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian politician (b. 1847)
**Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist, historian (b. 1834)
* January 8 – Mary Arthur McElroy, ''de facto'' First Lady of the United States (b. 1841)
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
– Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
*
January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
* January 18 – Andrew Murray (minister), Andrew Murray, South African author, educationist and pastor (b. 1828)
*
January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– Yikuang, Prince Qing of the First Rank (b. 1838)
* January 29 – Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British diplomat and colonial administrator (b. 1841)
*
February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral and politician (b. 1853)
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
* February 8 – Anton Haus, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1851)
* February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born English artist (b. 1849)
* February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French art critic and novelist (b. 1848)
* February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837)
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The Prus ...
** Joaquín Dicenta, Spanish writer (b. 1862)
** Fred Mace, American actor (b. 1878)
* March 5 – Manuel de Arriaga, 1st President of Portugal (b. 1840)
* March 6 – Jules Vandenpeereboom, 17th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1843)
*
March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bour ...
– Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and inventor (b. 1838)
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
- Robert Viren, Imperial Russian Navy admiral (b. 1857)
* March 17 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (b. 1838)
* March 29 – Maximilian von Prittwitz, German general (b. 1848)
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Emil von Behring, German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
April–June
![Frans Schollaert](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Frans_Schollaert.jpg)
* April 1 – Scott Joplin, African-American ragtime composer, pianist (b. c.1868)
* April 3 – Milton Wright (bishop), Milton Wright, American bishop, father of the Wright brothers (b. 1828)
*
April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*132 ...
– Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917), Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (b. 1893)
* April 7 – George Brown (missionary), George Brown, British missionary (b. 1835)
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– Richard Olney, American politician (b. 1835)
* April 13 – Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1856)
* April 14 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
* April 18 – F. C. Burnand, British playwright and comic writer (b. 1836)
* April 29 – Tehaapapa III, Tahitian queen (b. 1879)
* May 7 – Albert Ball, British World War I fighter ace, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b. 1896)
* May 17
**Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
**Radomir Putnik, Serbian field marshal (b. 1847)
* May 18 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician and inventor (b. 1839)
* May 20 – Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b. 1850)
* May 23 – Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar (b. 1855)
* May 24 – Les Darcy, Australian boxer (b. 1895)
* May 25
** Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
** René Dorme, French World War I fighter ace (b. 1894)
* May 27 – Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Imperial Russian Navy admiral and politician (b. 1843)
* May 29 – Kate Harrington (poet), Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (b. 1831)
* June 3 – Matilda Carse, Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer (b. 1835)
* June 5 – Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1891)
* June 12 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer and conductor (b. 1853)
* June 14 – Thomas W. Benoist, American aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the worlds first scheduled airline (b. 1874)
* June 15 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
* June 17 – José Manuel Pando, 25th President of Bolivia (b. 1849)
* June 18 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)
* June 26 – Ella Giles Ruddy, American author and essayist (b. 1851)
* June 27
** Karl Allmenröder, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1896)
** Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (b. 1838)
* June 29 – Frans Schollaert, 19th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1851)
* June 30
** Antonio de La Gándara, French painter (b. 1861)
** Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian politician (b. 1825)
July–September
![Mata-Hari 1910](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Mata-Hari_1910.jpg)
* July 2
** William Henry Moody, 35th United States Secretary of the Navy, 45th United States Attorney General, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1853)
** Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor (b. 1852)
* July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
* July 12
** Donald Cunnell, British World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1893)
** Hugo Simberg, Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1873)
* July 15 – Andrey Selivanov, Russian general and politician (b. 1847)
* July 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
* July 20 – Ignaz Sowinski, Polish architect (b. 1858)
* July 27 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)
* July 28 – Ririkumutima, Queen regent of Burundi
* July 31
** Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (killed in action) (b. 1887)
** Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (killed in action) (b. 1887)
* August 3 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
* August 7 – Edwin Harris Dunning, British aviator (b. 1892)
* August 13 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
*
August 17
Events Pre-1600
* 309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of ...
– John W. Kern, American Democratic politician (b. 1849)
* August 20 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
* August 30 – Alan Leo, British astrologer (b. 1860)
* September 9
** Boris Stürmer, Russian statesman, former prime minister (b. 1848)
** Madge Syers, British figure skater (b. 1881)
* September 11 – Georges Guynemer, French World War I fighter ace (missing in action) (b. 1894)
* September 15 – Kurt Wolff (aviator), Kurt Wolff, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895)
* September 23 – Werner Voss, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897)
* September 26 – Edward Miner Gallaudet, American educator of the deaf (b. 1837)
* September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
* September 30 – Patricio Montojo y Pasarón, Spanish admiral (b. 1839)
October–December
![Francesca Cabrini](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Francesca_Cabrini.JPG)
* October 3 – Eduardo di Capua, Neapolitan composer and songwriter (b. 1865)
* October 4 – Dave Gallaher, New Zealand rugby union football player (killed in action) (b. 1873)
* October 9 – Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt, (b. 1853)
* October 11 – Duke Philipp of Württemberg (b. 1838)
* October 13 – Florence La Badie, American actress (accident) (b. 1888)
* October 15 –
Mata Hari
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by ...
, Dutch dancer, spy (executed) (b. 1876)
* October 17 – Bobby Atherton, Welsh footballer (b. 1876)
* October 22 – Bob Fitzsimmons, British boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1863)
* October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
* October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897)
* October 28 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
* October 30 – Heinrich Gontermann, German fighter ace (flying accident) (b. 1896)
* November 2 – Tringe Smajli, Albanian guerrilla fighter and sworn virgin (b. 1880)
* November 3 – Frederick Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1842)
* November 7 – Margaret Cleaves, American physician and writer (b. 1848)
* November 8 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
* November 11 – Liliʻuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1838)
* November 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
* November 16 – Adolf Reinach, German philosopher (killed in action) (b. 1883)
* November 17
** Neil Primrose (politician), Neil Primrose, British Liberal MP (killed in action) (b. 1882)
** Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
* December 8 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian Yiddish, Hebrew writer (b. 1836)
* December 10 – Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
* December 12 – Andrew Taylor Still, American father of osteopathy (b. 1828)
* December 17 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and suffragette (b. 1836)
* December 19 – Richard Maybery, British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895)
* December 20 – Eric Campbell (actor), Eric Campbell, Scottish actor (accident) (b. 1879)
* December 22
** Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American canonized as a saint (b. 1850)
** Stanisław Tondos, Polish painter (b. 1854)
* December 24 – Ivan Goremykin, Russian statesman, former prime minister (b. 1839)
* December 28 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1892)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Charles Glover Barkla
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – not awarded
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – not awarded
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross
References
Further reading
* Williams, John. ''The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918'' (1972) pp 175–242.
Primary sources and year books
''New International Year Book 1917'' (1918) Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp
* ''American Year Book: 1917'' (1918), large compendium of facts about the U.S
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