Famous people and celebrities who died in September 1917

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in September 1917. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Sept. 3 Fanya Kaplan

  Russian gunman who shot at lenin august 30th, was executed

• Sept. 5 Marian Smoluchowski

  Austrian-polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)

• Sept. 8 Charles Edouard Lefebvre

  Composer dies at 74

• Sept. 11 Georges Guynemer

  French military pilot and major of the famed "storks squadron". guynemer, one of the most well-known french aviators, won 53 victories against enemy pilots in ww i. he was a hero for his courage, gaiety, and even death at the age of 24. on 11 september 1917, he was killed in an aerial battle over poelkapelle (belgium),

• Sept. 20 Herbert Morris

  Executed at 17 by a jamaican deserter in france

• Sept. 22 John Henry Knight

  English engineer (b. 1847)

• Sept. 23 Werner Voss

  German world war i pilot (born in 1897).

• Sept. 25 Thomas Ashe

  Irish republican brotherhood volunteer and rebel commander. died as a result of forced feeding while on hunger strike. (b. 1885)

• Sept. 27 Edgar Degas

  French painter, pastelist, sculptor, and photographer. he was regarded as one of the greatest male french draftsmen of the 19th century.