About the day » Monday October 22, 1917Calender converter

• Bernardus SPELBOS, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1917)
• van Gelderen, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Albert Van den Broeck, Nijlen, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1985)
• Aldert Ruurds de Graaf, wartena († 2006)
• Antoinetta Wilhelmina Schrijvers, Breda
• Vos, Hilvarenbeek († 1917)
• Adriaan Wisse, Terneuzen († 1997)
• Albertje Jans Boerstra, Luxwoude († 1999)
• Anny Wentink, Apeldoorn, Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1999)
• Adrianus Hendricus Sebregts, Zevenbergen (Moerdijk) (Noord-Brabant) († 1994)

• Anna Maria Verwoert (72), lienden, Nederland
• Adolph Hermann Kiehl (88), Hierden, Ge. NL
• Albertine van Putten (1), Dennenoord, Zuidlaren
• André Ambroise Virgile Charles (81), La Bouverie,, Hainaut, Belgique
• Alida Elisabeth TIEKE (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Schep (74), Rotterdam
• Adriana Cornelia PAASEN (72), Roosendaal en Nispen (N.Br. Nl)
• Aartje Kuijt (89), Loosdrecht
• van Gelderen (0), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Hendrikus Marinus Zeij (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1913 » Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor († 1997)
• 1913 » Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation († 2002)
• 1913 » Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist († 1954)
• 1915 » Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel († 2012)
• 1917 » Joan Fontaine, British-American actress († 2013)
• 1918 » Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1976)
• 1919 » Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Kathleen Ankers, English-American actress and set designer († 2001)
• 1920 » Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author († 1996)
• 1921 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)

• 1902 » Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
• 1917 » Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857)
• 1927 » Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876)
• 1928 » Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1935 » Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Ettore Marchiafava, Italian physician (b. 1847)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
• January 31 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
• February 3 » First World War: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
• May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
• May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
• November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

The temperature on October 22, 1917 was between 5.0 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.