Births on 17 March
2000s
Pietro Pellegri
2001
Italian association football player
1900s
Brandon Aiyuk
1998
American football player (born 1998)
Katie Ledecky
1997
American swimmer (born 1997)
Daniel Sprong
1997
Dutch ice hockey player (born 1997)
Claressa Shields
1995
American boxer (born 1995)
DeForest Buckner
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Terry Rozier
1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Ivan Provedel
1994
Italian footballer (born 1994)
Marcel Sabitzer
1994
Austrian footballer (born 1994)
Matteo Bianchetti
1993
Italian footballer (born 1993)
Rhys Hoskins
1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Death of Yao Yuanjun
1993
John Boyega
1992
English actor (born 1992)
Patrick Cantlay
1992
American professional golfer (born 1992)
Yeltsin Tejeda
1992
Costa Rican footballer (born 1992)
Sergey Kalinin (ice hockey)
1991
Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Cordarrelle Patterson
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Thomas Robinson (basketball)
1991
American-Lebanese basketball player
Hozier
1990
Irish musician (born 1990)
Saina Nehwal
1990
Indian badminton player (born 1990)
Jean Segura
1990
Dominican baseball player (born 1990)
Mikael Backlund
1989
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Shinji Kagawa
1989
Japanese footballer (born 1989)
Juan Lagares
1989
Dominican baseball player (born 1989)
Harry Melling
1989
British actor (born 1989)
Rasmus Elm
1988
Swedish footballer
Fraser Forster
1988
English footballer (born 1988)
Grimes
1988
Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer (born 1988)
Brent Meuleman
1988
Belgian politician (born 1988)
Ryan White (ice hockey)
1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Federico Fazio
1987
Argentine footballer (born 1987)
Rob Kardashian
1987
American television personality (born 1987)
Carlos Lampe
1987
Bolivian footballer (born 1987)
Ryan Parent
1987
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Bobby Ryan
1987
American ice hockey player (born 1987)
Emmanuel Sanders
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Chris Davis (baseball)
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Edin Džeko
1986
Bosnian footballer (born 1986)
Miles Kane
1986
English musician (born 1986)
Jeremy Pargo
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Silke Spiegelburg
1986
German pole vaulter
Tuğba Karademir
1985
Turkish figure skater
César Valdez
1985
Dominican baseball player (born 1985)
Chris Copeland
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Ryan Rottman
1984
American actor (born 1984)
James Heath (golfer)
1983
English professional golfer
Raul Meireles
1983
Portuguese footballer (born 1983)
Attila Vajda
1983
Hungarian sprint canoeist
Steven Pienaar
1982
South African footballer (born 1982)
Aaron Baddeley
1981
Australian professional golfer
Servet Çetin
1981
Turkish footballer
Nicky Jam
1981
American singer (born 1981)
Kyle Korver
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Danny Califf
1980
American soccer player (born 1980)
Stormy Daniels
1979
American pornographic actress (born 1979)
Andrew Ference
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Stephen Kramer Glickman
1979
Canadian actor (born 1979)
Mineko Nomachi
1979
Japanese mangaka and illustrator (born 1979)
Samoa Joe
1979
American wrestler (born 1979)
Zachery Kouwe
1978
American public relations strategist and financial journalist
Tamar Braxton
1977
American singer (born 1977)
Scott Downs
1976
American baseball player (born 1976)
Stephen Gately
1976
Irish pop singer (1976–2009)
Álvaro Recoba
1976
Uruguayan footballer (born 1976)
Justin Hawkins
1975
English musician (born 1975)
Puneeth Rajkumar
1975
Indian Kannada actor and film producer (1975–2021)
Test (wrestler)
1975
Canadian professional wrestler (1975 – 2009)
Mark Dolan
1974
English comedian, writer, and presenter
Rico Blanco
1973
Filipino musician (born 1973)
Vance Wilson
1973
American baseball player & coach (born 1973)
Torquil Campbell
1972
Canadian musician (born 1972)
Bill Mueller
1971
American baseball player and coach (born 1971)
Patrick Lebeau
1970
Canadian ice hockey player
Gene Ween
1970
American rock musician
Edgar Grospiron
1969
French freestyle skier (born 1969)
Alexander McQueen
1969
British fashion designer (1969–2010)
Eri Nitta
1968
Japanese singer
Barry Minkow
1967
American businessman, fraudster, and convicted felon
Andrew Rosindell
1966
British politician (born 1966)
Andrew Hudson (cricketer)
1965
South African cricketer
Stefano Borgonovo
1964
Italian footballer and manager
Lee Dixon
1964
English footballer and commentator
Rob Lowe
1964
American actor (born 1964)
Jacques Songo'o
1964
Cameroonian footballer (born 1964)
Roger Harper
1963
West Indian cricketer
Casten Almqvist
1962
Swedish CEO (born 1962)
Ank Bijleveld
1962
Dutch politician
Janet Gardner
1962
American rock singer (born 1962)
Clare Grogan
1962
Scottish actress and singer (born 1962)
Rob Sitch
1962
Australian film director and comedian (born 1962)
Sam Bowie
1961
American basketball player (born 1961)
Dana Reeve
1961
American actress and singer (1961–2006)
Danny Ainge
1959
American basketball executive and player (born 1959)
Paul Black (musician)
1959
American singer and drummer
Michael Kelly (editor)
1957
American journalist (1957–2003)
Patrick McDonnell
1956
American illustrator (born 1956)
Rory McGrath
1956
English comedian (born 1956)
Cynthia McKinney
1955
American politician and activist (born 1955)
Filemon Lagman
1953
Filipino trade unionist and revolutionary (1953–2001)
Chuck Muncie
1953
American football player (1953–2013)
Barry Horne (activist)
1952
English animal rights activist (1952–2001)
Scott Gorham
1951
American guitarist (born 1951)
Craig Ramsay
1951
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Pat Rice
1949
Northern Irish footballer (born 1949)
Stuart Rose
1949
British businessman and life peer (born 1949)
William Gibson
1948
American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist (born 1948)
Alex MacDonald (footballer, born 1948)
1948
Scottish footballer and manager
Dennis Bond
1947
English footballer (1947–2025)
Yury Chernavsky
1947
Russian musician (1947–2025)
Michael Hayden (general)
1945
American general (born 1945)
Pattie Boyd
1944
English model and photographer (born 1944)
Cito Gaston
1944
American baseball player and manager (born 1944)
Jeff Banks
1943
Welsh designer
Andrew Brook
1943
Canadian philosopher, author and academic (born 1943)
John Wayne Gacy
1942
American serial killer (1942–1994)
Yoko Yamamoto
1942
Japanese actress (1942–2024)
Wang Jin-pyng
1941
Taiwanese politician
Paul Kantner
1941
American rock musician (1941–2016)
Max Stafford-Clark
1941
British theatre director (born 1941)
Mark White (Texas politician)
1940
American politician (1940–2017)
Jim Gary
1939
American artist and sculptor (1939-2006)
Bill Graham (Canadian politician)
1939
Canadian politician and lawyer (1939–2022)
Robin Knox-Johnston
1939
British yacht racer (born 1939)
Giovanni Trapattoni
1939
Italian association football player and manager
Rudolf Nureyev
1938
Soviet-born ballet dancer (1938–1993)
Keith O'Brien
1938
Scottish Catholic cardinal (1938–2018)
Zola Taylor
1938
American musician (1938–2007)
Galina Samsova
1937
Russian ballet dancer (1937–2021)
Ida Kleijnen
1936
Dutch chef (1936–2019)
Ladislav Kupkovič
1936
Slovak composer and conductor
Ken Mattingly
1936
American astronaut (1936–2023)
Fred T. Mackenzie
1935
American sedimentary biogeochemist (1934–2024)
Adam Wade (singer)
1935
American singer and actor (1935–2022)
Myrlie Evers-Williams
1933
American civil rights activist (born 1933)
Penelope Lively
1933
British novelist (born 1933)
Dick Curless
1932
American country music singer (1932–1995)
Patricia Breslin
1931
American actress and philanthropist (1926–2011)
David Peakall
1931
Paul Horn (musician)
1930
American flautist, saxophonist, and composer (1930–2014)
James Irwin
1930
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1991)
William John McKeag
1928
Canadian politician
Betty Allen
1927
American singer (1927–2009)
Siegfried Lenz
1926
German writer
Gabriele Ferzetti
1925
Italian actor (1925–2015)
Stephen Dodgson
1924
British composer and broadcaster (1924–2013)
Patrick Suppes
1922
American philosopher
Meir Amit
1921
Israeli politician (1921–2009)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1920
Bangladeshi revolutionary and statesman (1920–1975)
Nat King Cole
1919
American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)
Mad Mike Hoare
1919
British-Irish military officer and mercenary (1919–2020)
Hank Sauer
1917
American baseball player (1917–2001)
Ray Ellington
1916
English musician and bandleader (1916–1985)
Robert S. Arbib Jr.
1915
American ornithologist and writer
Bill Roycroft
1915
Australian equestrian (1915–2011)
Sammy Baugh
1914
American football player and coach (1914–2008)
Bayard Rustin
1912
American civil rights activist (1912–1987)
Sonny Werblin
1910
American talent agent
Brigitte Helm
1908
German actress (1908–1996)
Takeo Miki
1907
Prime Minister of Japan from 1974 to 1976
Jean Van Houtte
1907
Belgian politician
Lillian Yarbo
1905
American actress, dancer and singer (1905–1996)
Chaim Gross
1904
American sculptor and educator of Ukrainian Jewish origin (1902–1991)
Elli Stenberg
1903
Finnish politician (1903–1987)
Bobby Jones (golfer)
1902
American amateur golfer (1902–1971)
Alfred Newman
1900
American composer (1900-1970)
1800s
Lloyd Rees
1895
Australian landscape painter (1895–1988)
Paul Green (playwright)
1894
American playwright (1894–1981)
Floyd B. Barnum
1892
American football coach
Sayed Darwish
1892
Egyptian singer and composer (1892–1923)
Ross McLarty
1891
Australian politician (1891–1962)
Harry Clarke
1889
Irish artist (1889–1931)
Paul Ramadier
1888
Prime Minister of France (1888–1961)
Princess Patricia of Connaught
1886
British princess (1886–1974)
Ralph Rose
1885
American track and field athlete (1885–1913)
Alcide Nunez
1884
American jazz clarinetist (1884-1934)
Walter Rudolf Hess
1881
Swiss physiologist (1881–1973)
Patrick Hastings
1880
English barrister and politician (1880–1952)
Lawrence Oates
1880
British explorer (1880–1912)
Edith New
1877
20th-century English suffragette
Otto Gross
1877
Austrian psychoanalyst (1877–1920)
Ville Kiviniemi
1877
Finnish politician (1877–1951)
Patrice Contamine de Latour
1867
Spanish poet, emigrant to France
Pierce Butler (judge)
1866
American jurist (1866–1939)
Joseph Baptista
1864
Indian politician and activist (1864–1930)
Martha P. Falconer
1862
Social reformer
Silvio Gesell
1862
German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
Mikhail Vrubel
1856
Russian artist (1856–1910)
Charles F. Brush
1849
American engineer (1849–1929)
Cornelia Clapp
1849
American zoologist and educator (1849–1934)
Ernesta Forti
1848
Kate Greenaway
1846
British artist (1846–1901)
Rosina Heikel
1842
Finnish doctor (1842–1929)
Josef Rheinberger
1839
German composer and organist (1839–1901)
Gottlieb Daimler
1834
German engineer, industrialist and automotive pioneer (1834–1900)
Jean Ingelow
1820
English poet and novelist (1820–1897)
Norbert Rillieux
1806
American inventor, engineer (1806–1894)
Jim Bridger
1804
American explorer (1804–1881)
Before 1800
Ebenezer Elliott
1781
English poet and Corn Laws opponent (1781–1849)
Thomas Chalmers
1780
Scottish clergyman, writer and historian (1780 – 1847)
Patrick Brontë
1777
Irish clergyman and writer (1777–1861)
Roger B. Taney
1777
Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864
Lachlan McIntosh
1725
American general (1725–1806)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1686
18th-century French Rococo painter
Thomas Boston
1676
Scottish Presbyterian church leader and theologian
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
1665
French musician, harpsichordist and composer
Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge
1611
Scottish cavalry general (1611-1662)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1537
Military ruler of Japan from 1585 to 1598
Giovanni Francesco Commendone
1523
Italian cardinal
James IV of Scotland
1473
King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513
Emperor Shijō
1231
Emperor of Japan from 1232 to 1242
Harun al-Rashid
763
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)