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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  - 1920s -  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1917 1918 1919 - 1920 - 1921 1922 1923

[change] Events

• The King of Spain blesses the Real Madrid football team.

[change] Births

• January 20 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
• February 26 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
• May 18 - John Paul II, Polish-born Pope (d. 2005)
• June 10 - Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (d. 2007)

[change] Deaths

• January 2 - Paul Adam, French writer (b. 1862)
• January 3 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1888)
• January 4 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
• January 6 - Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b. 1839)
• January 7 - Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b. 1825)
• January 24 - William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. 1854)
• January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
• January 24 - William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator (b. 1864)
• January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b. 1898)
• February 2 - Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator (b. 1896)
• February 3 - Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (b. 1846)
• February 6 - Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1839)
• February 7 - Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander (b. 1874)
• February 15 - Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. 1837)
• February 20 - Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu (b. 1872)
• February 20 - Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b. 1856)
• February 27 - William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b. 1863)
• March 1 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. 1842)
• March 1 - William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846)
• March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
• March 4 - Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843)
• March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
• March 13 - Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b. 1842)
• March 26 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b. 1834)
• March 26 - Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851)
• March 31 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b. 1837)
• March 31 - Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b. 1848)
• April 8 - John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840)
• April 8 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
• April 9 - Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (b. 1829)
• April 21 - Maria L. Sanford, American educator (b. 1836)
• April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
• May 1 - Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882)
• May 9 - Agnes Macdonald, wife of John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1836
• May 11 - James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b. 1877)
• May 11 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
• May 16 - Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States (b. 1824)
• May 21 - Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (b. 1868)
• May 23 - Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856)
• May 30 - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b. 1862)
• June 5 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b. 1840)
• June 5 - Julia A. Moore, American poet (b. 1847)
• June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b. 1851)
• June 13 - Essad Pasha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
• June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane, French actress (b. 1856)
• June 14 - Max Weber, German political economist (b. 1864)
• June 18 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b. 1835)
• June 18 - John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b. 1831)
• June 20 - Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839)
• June 20 - John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838)
• June 27 - Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b. 1839)
• July 1 - Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
• July 10 - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• July 11 - Empress Eugénie of France (b. 1826)
• July 14 - Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
• July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, American heir (b. 1849)
• August 1 - Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b. 1863)
• August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (b. 1856)
• August 2 - Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b. 1891)
• August 9 - Samuel Griffith, Australian politician and judge (b. 1845)
• August 10 - Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist (b. 1835)
• August 12 - Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1854)
• August 16 - Henry Daglish, Premier of Australia (b. 1866)
• August 16 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b. 1836)
• August 17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
• August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
• August 26 - James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
• August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
• September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
• September 10 - Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894)
• September 18 - Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836)
• September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
• September 25 - Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847)
• September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)
• October 2 - Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853)
• October 10 - Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865)
• October 19 - John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887)
• October 20 - Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)
• October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
• November 4 - Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
• November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
• November 23 - George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852)
• November 25 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile race driver and manufacturer (b. 1892)
• November 30 - Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b. 1852)
• December 3 - William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b. 1843)
• December 11 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
• December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. 1854)
• December 14 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)