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Petter Adolf Karsten
Finnish mycologist (1834-1917)
James Crafts
American chemist (1839-1917)
Ber Borochov
founder of the Labor Zionist movement (1881-1917)
Giuseppe Veronese
Italian mathematician (1854-1917)
Judith Gautier
French poet and historical novelist (1845-1917)
Sarah Aaronsohn
Jewish spy working for the British in World War I (1890–1917)
Georges Guynemer
French flying ace (1894–1917)
Édouard Drumont
French journalist and writer (1844–1917)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator (1841-1917)
Émile Boirac
French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer (1851–1917)
Edward Thomas
British poet and journalist (1878–1917)
Yevgeni Bauer
Russian film director (1865–1917)
Friedrich Robert Helmert
German geodesist (1843-1917)
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
German prince (1831-1917)
Gaston Alibert
fencer (1878–1917)
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
British nobleman and politician (1849–1917)
Belva Ann Lockwood
Suffragist (1830–1917)
Eduardo Di Capua
Italian composer, singer and songwriter (1865–1917)
Joseph B. Foraker
American politician from Ohio (1846-1917)
Charles Horton Peck
American mycologist (1833–1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder
American painter (1847–1917)
Ivan Aguéli
Sufi master and nationally recognized contemporary painter in Sweden (1869-1917)
Oswaldo Cruz
Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (1872-1917)
Duke Philipp of Württemberg
German duke (1838-1917)
Eduardo Pondal
Spanish author (1835-1917)
Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria
Princess Consort (1908-1908), later Queen Consort of Bulgaria (1908-1917)
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev
Imperial Russian Navy admiral (1843-1917)
José Manuel Pando
President of Bolivia (1849-1917)
Stéphane Javelle
French astronomer (1864–1917)
Tom Thomson
Canadian artist (1877-1917)
James Dwight
US tennis player (1852-1917)
Emil Goeldi
Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist (1859–1917)
Matthias Zurbriggen
Swiss mountain climber (1856-1917)
Sarat Chandra Das
Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture (1849-1917)
T. E. Hulme
English Imagist poet and critic (1883–1917)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
English actor and theatre manager (1852–1917)
Albert Ball
British aviator killed in WWI
William Knox D'Arcy
oil entrepreneur magnate, one of the founders of British Oil (1849–1917)
Frans Schollaert
Belgian lawyer and politician, and former Belgian prime minister (1851–1917)
Anton Haus
Austrian admiral (1851–1917)
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
Dutch linguist and orientalist (1833-1917)
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
German prince and equestrian (1893-1917)
Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
British politician and Governor General of Canada (1851-1917)
Teoberto Maler
German Mesoamericanist (1842–1917)
Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov
Russian politician
Federico Zandomeneghi
Italian painter (1841-1917)
Carlo Oriani
Italian racing cyclist (1888–1917)
Frederick Stanley Maude
British Army general (1864–1917)
Andrew Murray
South African minister (1828-1917)
Kristian Zahrtmann
Danish painter (1843-1917)
Yikuang, Prince Qing
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Andrew Taylor Still
American physician and politician (1828–1917); founder of Osteopathic Medicine
Jules Vandenpeereboom
Belgian lawyer and politician (1843-1917)
Florence La Badie
actress (1888-1917)
Waldemar Tietgens
German rower (1879-1917)
Janez Evangelist Krek
Slovenian politician (1865–1917)
Leander Starr Jameson
Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1853-1917)
Elsie Inglis
Scottish doctor
Hedd Wyn
Welsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887–1917)
Viktor Madarász
Hungarian artist (c.1828-1917)