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Hedd Wyn
Welsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887–1917)
Waldemar Tietgens
German rower (1879-1917)
Axel Olrik
Danish folklorist and scholar of mediaeval historiography (1864–1917)
Avshalom Feinberg
Jewish British spy (1889–1917)
Frederick Selous
British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist (1851–1917)
Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz
Polish painter (1861-1917)
Frederick McCubbin
Australian artist (1855-1917)
Liu Yongfu
Chinese general (1837-1917)
Georges Demenÿ
French photographer (1850–1917)
Chrétien Waydelich
French croquet player (1841–1917)
Edmund Weiss
Austrian astronomer (1837-1917)
Stanisław Tarnowski
Polish politician (1837–1917)
Matthijs Maris
Dutch painter (1839-1917)
Franziskus von Bettinger
Catholic cardinal (1850-1917)
Aurel Popovici
Romanian politician (1863-1917)
Alfred Einhorn
German chemist (1856-1917)
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
British entomologist (1828–1917)
Moritz von Bissing
German general (1844-1917)
Bérenger Saunière
French priest (1852-1917)
Alister Kirby
British rower (1886-1917)
Charles Brooke
White Rajah of Sarawak (1829–1917)
Károly Hornig
Hungarian Catholic cardinal (1840-1917)
Werner Voß
German flying ace (1897–1917)
Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen
Danish general and politician (1844–1917)
Wladimir Burliuk
Ukrainian artist (1886-1917)
Yi Jun-yong
Korean noble (1870-1917)
Sandy Turnbull
Scottish footballer (1884-1917)
Hans von Blixen-Finecke
equestrian (1886–1917)
Károly Ferenczy
Hungarian painter (1862-1917)
Adolf Reinach
German philosopher (1883-1917)
Herbert William Conn
American bacteriologist and educator (1859-1917)
Percy Courtman
British swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist, former world record-holder (1888-1917)
Agustín Stahl
Puerto Rican medical doctor, and scientist (1842–1917)
Louise Hammarström
Swedish chemist (1849-1917)
Diomede Falconio
Catholic cardinal (1842–1917)
Alexei Mateevici
Romanian writer (1888-1917)
Jaber II Al-Sabah
Sheikh of Kuwait (1860-1917)
Oswald Chambers
British missionary (1874-1917)
Paul Meyer
French philologist (1840–1917)
William E. Chandler
American politician (1835–1917)
Wilhelm Morgner
German painter (1891-1917)
Antonio de La Gandara
French painter, pastellist and draughtsman (1861-1917)
Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria
Austro-Tuscan Imperial and Royal (1845–1917)
Harold Barlow
English tennis player (1860-1917)
William Duddell
British physicist (1872–1917)
Pasquale Villari
Italian historian and politician (1827-1917)
Walter Flex
German author (1887–1917)
Frédéric Sy
French astronomer
Bernhard von Gaza
German rower (1881–1917)
Joseph Jules Dejerine
French neurologist (1849–1917)
Gustav Jäger
German naturalist and hygienist (1832-1917)
Robert Reinhold von Wirén
Baltic German admiral (1856–1917)
Joseph Halévy
French Orientalist (1827–1917)
Agnes Dean Abbatt
New York painter
William Henry Moody
US Supreme Court justice from 1906 to 1910
Louis Schmeisser
weapons designer in Europe in the early 1900s
Duncan Mackinnon
British rower (1887–1917)
James Carroll Beckwith
American painter (1852-1917)
Philipp von Ferrary
French philatelist, owner of the world's largest stamp collection (1850–1917)
Pedro Bonifacio Palacios
Argentine poet (1854–1917)