1917
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1917 was the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade.
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Art and culture
- April 10 - The "First Annual Exhibition" of the Society of Independent Artists opens at the Grand Central Palace, New York, not showing Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
- Parade (ballet) premieres in Paris
- Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld
- "Mourning and Melancholia", an essay by Sigmund Freud on depression.
- Defamiliarization coined
- Russian Revolution
- November 7
- (N.S.) (October 25, O.S.) – October Revolution in Russia: The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Kerensky Provisional Government after less than eight months of rule. This immediately triggers the Russian Civil War.
- God (sculpture) by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
- L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes by Guillaume Apollinaire
- Paths of Glory (painting)
- "Cantleman’s Springmate" by Wyndham Lewis
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Music
- Tico-Tico no Fubá by Zequinha de Abreu
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Births
- Ettore Sottsass (1917 - 2007)
- Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955)
- Leslie Fiedler (1917 - 2003)
- Maya Deren (1917 - 1961)
- Gershon Legman (1917 - 1999)
- Manny Farber (1917 - 2008)
- Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993)
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Deaths
- January 10 – Buffalo Bill, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)
- February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
- Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
- E. B. Tylor (1832 - 1917)
- Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
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