1917 in Iran

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See also:	Other events of 1917 Years in Iran

The following lists events that happened during 1917 in Qajar era.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Ahmad Shah Qajar
• Prime Minister: Vosugh od-Dowleh (until June 5), Mohammad-Ali Ala ol-Saltaneh (June 5 – November 21), Abdol Majid Mirza (starting November 21)

Births

• February 8 – Ehsan Tabari, Iranian philosopher, poet, literary figure.
• February 10 – Hossein Fatemi, Iranian politician.
• March 16 – Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician.
• March 20 – Anvar Khamei, Iranian economist, journalist and translator.
• April 1 – Heshmat Sanjari, Iranian conductor and composer.
• June 24 – Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician.
• October 6 – Fereydoon Motamed, linguists.
• October 28 – Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of the last Shah of Iran.
• October 31 – Mehri Mehrnia, Iranian actress.
• ? – Akbar Schandermani, Iranian politician.
• ? – Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou, Iranian politician.
• ? – Effat Tejaratchi, first Iranian female aviator.
• ? – Esmail Koushan, Persian film director.
• ? – Habibollah Hedayat, Iranian nutritonist.
• ? – Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi, Iranian ayatollah.
• ? – Hossein Fardoust, Iranian politician.
• ? – Khosrow Qashqai, Iranian politician.
• ? – Mahlagha Mallah, Iranian environmentalist.
• ? – Mahmoud Melmasi – Azarm, Iranian writer.
• ? – Mahmoud Sakhaie, Iranian military personnel.
• ? – Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, sixth son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and of Batoul Khanoum.
• ? – Shami Kermashani, Kurdish poet.

Deaths

• February 21 – Adib al-Mamalek Farahani, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.
• ? – Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari, Iranian revolutionary.