What is 1917?
{{Year nav|1917}} {{Year in various calendars|1917}} '''1917''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXVII]]) was a [[common year starting on Monday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Sunday]] in the [[Julian calendar]]. == Events == * Last year of Tsar Nicolas II of Russia's reign. * Russian Revolutions (Russia goes communist) * The [[United States]] declares war on [[Germany]] (for [[World War I]]) * Influenza pandemic == Births == === January === [[File:Promotional photograph of Jane Wyman.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jane Wyman]]]] [[File:Ernest Borgnine McHale McHale's Navy 1962.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Ernest Borgnine]]]] [[File:Ilya Prigogine 1977c.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ilya Prigogine]]]] [[File:Janio Quadros.png|thumb|110px|[[Jânio Quadros]]]] * [[January 5]] – [[Jane Wyman]], American actress (d. [[2007]]) * [[January 24]] – [[Ernest Borgnine]], American actor (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Ilya Prigogine]], Belgian chemist (d. [[2003]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Jânio Quadros]], 22nd [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1992]]) === February === [[File:Yahya Khan (cropped version).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Yahya Khan]]]] [[File:Zsa Zsa Gabor - 1959.jpg |thumb|110px|[[Zsa Zsa Gábor]]]] * [[February 4]] – [[Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan]], Last President of United [[Pakistan]] (d. [[1980]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]], Hungarian American actress (d. [[2016]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Herbert Hauptman]], American [[mathematician]] and Nobel laureate in [[Chemistry]] (d. [[2011]]) === March === [[File:Desi Arnaz 1950.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Desi Arnaz]]]] [[File:Vera Lynn (1962).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Vera Lynn]]]] [[File:CyrusVanceSoS.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Cyrus Vance]]]] * [[March 2]] – [[Desi Arnaz]], Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (d. [[1986]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Vera Lynn]], British singer (d. [[2020]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Cyrus Vance]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. [[2002]]) === April === [[File:Ella Fitzgerald 1962.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Ella Fitzgerald]]]] [[File:I.M. Pei.JPG|thumb|110p