Editing 1917 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:Cody-Buffalo-Bill-LOC.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Buffalo Bill|Buffalo Bill Cody]]]]
[[File:Bildnis Ferdinand von Zeppelin.png|thumb|110px|[[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]]]]
[[File:Emil von Behring sitzend.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emil von Behring]]]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Edward Burnett Tylor|Sir Edward Tylor]], English anthropologist (b. [[1832]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Frederick Selous]], British explorer (b. [[1851]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Frederick William Borden|Sir Frederick Borden]], Canadian politician (b. [[1847]])
**[[Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack]], Dutch economist, historian (b. [[1834]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Mary Arthur McElroy]], ''de facto'' [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1841]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Buffalo Bill]], American frontiersman (b. [[1846]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[George Dewey]], U.S. admiral (b. [[1837]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Andrew Murray (minister)|Andrew Murray]], South African author, educationist and pastor (b. [[1828]])
*[[January 28]] &ndash; [[Yikuang]], Prince Qing of the First Rank (b. [[1838]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer]], British diplomat and colonial administrator (b. [[1841]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grigg |first=John |title=Lloyd George: From Peace To War 1912-16 |publisher=Penguin |year=2002 |orig-year=1985 |isbn=0-140-28426-5| page=436}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Alexey Abaza]], Russian admiral and politician (b. [[1853]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Jaber II Al-Sabah]], [[Emir of Kuwait]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Anton Haus]], Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. [[1851]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[John William Waterhouse]], Italian-born English artist (b. [[1849]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Octave Mirbeau]], French art critic and novelist (b. [[1848]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Carolus-Duran]], French painter (b. [[1837]])
* [[February 21]] 
** [[Joaquín Dicenta]], Spanish writer (b. [[1862]])
** [[Fred Mace]], American actor (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Manuel de Arriaga]], 1st [[President of Portugal]] (b. [[1840]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Jules Vandenpeereboom]], 17th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1843]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]], German general and inventor (b. [[1838]])<ref>{{DNB portal|118636545}}</ref>
*[[March 14]] &ndash; [[Robert Viren]], Imperial Russian Navy admiral (b. [[1857]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Franz Brentano]], German philosopher, psychologist (b. [[1838]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Maximilian von Prittwitz]], German general (b. [[1848]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Emil von Behring]], German winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1854]])