Death year 1917 celebrities
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Robert James “Bob” Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) was a British born professional boxer who made boxing history as the sport’s first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who be
Anna Christianovna Johansson (Russian: Анна Христиановна Иогансон) (1860-1917), was a Russian ballerina who danced with the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet.
John William (Wee Willie) Sudhoff (September 17, 1874 – May 25, 1917) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the National League for the St. Louis Browns (1897–1898), Cleveland Spiders (1899), St. Louis Perfectos (1899) and
Scott Joplin (/ˈdʒɒplɪn/; c. 1867/1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the “King of Ragtime Writers”. During his brief career, he wrote 44 original
John Edward Raphael (30 April 1882 – 11 June 1917) was a Belgian born English sportsman who was capped nine times for England at rugby union and played first-class cricket with Surrey.
Jack Standing (10 February 1886 – 25 October 1917) was an English actor.
Allen A. McCauley (March 4, 1863– August 24, 1917), was an American first baseman and pitcher in Major League Baseball for three seasons, 1884, 1890 & 1891. He played in the minor leagues between 1884 and 1890 and afterwards from 1892–1897, prima
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk KG GCVO VD PC (27 December 1847 – 11 February 1917), styled Baron Maltravers until 1856 and Earl of Arundel and Surrey between 1856 and 1860, was a British Unionist politician and philanthropist. He se
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first
Ludovicus Stornebrink (sometimes written as Ludowicus and also known as Louis Stornebrink), was the founder of the Yokohama Ice Works in Yokohama, Japan. Stornebrink was born on March 15, 1847 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and moved to Japan at an ea
Timothy Hayes Murnane (June 4, 1851 – February 7, 1917) was an American sportswriter specializing in baseball, regarded as the leading baseball writer at The Boston Globe for about thirty years until his death. At the same time, he organized and le