Death year 1917 celebrities

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Death year 1917

Edward Elers Delaval Henderson Facts

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Elers Delaval Henderson VC (2 October 1878 – 25 January 1917) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and

Albert Ball Facts

Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom’s leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest

Date Munemoto Facts

Count Date Munemoto (伊達宗基) was a daimyo during the Bakumatsu period. He was the 30th generation head of the Date clan and 12th and final daimyo of Sendai Domain in northern Japan.

Art Weaver Facts

Arthur Coggshall “Art” Weaver (April 7, 1879 – March 23, 1917) was a Major League Baseball player. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and died in Denver, Colorado. Weaver played for four different teams from 1902 to 1908, playing most of his games at

Octave Mirbeau Facts

2 dates of birth attributed… neither showing credible reference.. February 16, 1850 and 16 February 1848Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwrigh

Avshalom Feinberg Facts

Avshalom Feinberg (Hebrew: אבשלום פיינברג‎, October 23, 1889 – January 20, 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

William Cornwallis West Facts

William Cornwallis Cornwallis-West VD JP (20 March 1835 – 4 July 1917), was a British politician.

Ludwig Sütterlin Facts

Ludwig Sütterlin (1865–1917) was a graphic artist who lived in Berlin, Germany, and was most notable for designing and creating the old German blackletter handwriting Sütterlinschrift (Sütterlin script) or simply Sütterlin.

Charlie Gould Facts

Charles Harvey Gould (August 21, 1847 – April 9, 1917), nicknamed “The Bushel Basket”, was an American Major League Baseball player during the 1860s and 1870s. He was the first baseman for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 and 1870, the

Wilhelm Frankl Facts

Wilhelm Frankl (20 December 1893 – 8 April 1917), Pour le Mérite, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross, was a World War I fighter ace credited with 20 aerial victories.

Hartmuth Baldamus Facts

Leutnant Hartmuth Baldamus was a World War I flying ace credited with 19 aerial victories.

Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon Facts

Constance Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon (22 April 1859 – 28 October 1917), was a British patron of the arts. She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included N