17 March
Notable Births
Brandon Aiyuk
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Katie Ledecky
b. 1997
American swimmer (born 1997)
Daniel Sprong
b. 1997
Dutch ice hockey player (born 1997)
Claressa Shields
b. 1995
American boxer (born 1995)
DeForest Buckner
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Terry Rozier
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Marcel Sabitzer
b. 1994
Austrian footballer (born 1994)
Rhys Hoskins
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Death of Yao Yuanjun
b. 1993
John Boyega
b. 1992
English actor (born 1992)
Patrick Cantlay
b. 1992
American professional golfer (born 1992)
Yeltsin Tejeda
b. 1992
Costa Rican footballer (born 1992)
Sergey Kalinin (ice hockey)
b. 1991
Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Cordarrelle Patterson
b. 1991
American football player (born 1991)
Thomas Robinson (basketball)
b. 1991
American-Lebanese basketball player
Hozier
b. 1990
Irish musician (born 1990)
Saina Nehwal
b. 1990
Indian badminton player (born 1990)
Jean Segura
b. 1990
Dominican baseball player (born 1990)
Mikael Backlund
b. 1989
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Shinji Kagawa
b. 1989
Japanese footballer (born 1989)
Notable Deaths
John Hemingway (RAF officer)
d. 2025
Irish RAF fighter pilot (1919–2025)
Lee Shau-kee
d. 2025
Hong Kong real estate billionaire (1928–2025)
Lance Reddick
d. 2023
American actor (1962–2023)
John Magufuli
d. 2021
President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
Phan Văn Khải
d. 2018
Vietnamese politician (1933–2018)
Meir Dagan
d. 2016
Israeli general and Mossad director (1945–2016)
Marek Galiński (cyclist)
d. 2014
Polish cyclist (1974–2014)
William B. Caldwell III
d. 2013
United States Army general
A.B.C. Whipple
d. 2013
American Journalist, Editor, Historian
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
d. 2012
Head of the Coptic Church from 1971 to 2012
Margaret Whitlam
d. 2012
Australian social campaigner and athlete
Michael Gough
d. 2011
British character actor (1916–2011)
Ferlin Husky
d. 2011
American country music singer (1925–2011)
Alex Chilton
d. 2010
American musician (1950–2010)
Sid Fleischman
d. 2010
American writer (1920–2010)
Clodovil Hernandes
d. 2009
Brazilian politician
Roland E. Arnall
d. 2008
American businessman and diplomat (1939–2008)
John Backus
d. 2007
American computer scientist
Oleg Cassini
d. 2006
Russian-American fashion designer (1913–2006)
Ray Meyer
d. 2006
American basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator