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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of March 0180 | EVENT | Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. |
| 17th of March 0624 | EVENT | Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr. |
| 17th of March 1337 | EVENT | Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. |
| 17th of March 1776 | EVENT | American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. |
| 17th of March 1780 | EVENT | American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence". |
| 17th of March 1805 | EVENT | The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King. |
| 17th of March 1842 | EVENT | The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed; |
| 17th of March 1860 | EVENT | The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars. |
| 17th of March 1861 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Italy (1861 : 1946) is proclaimed. |
| 17th of March 1891 | EVENT | SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board. |
| 17th of March 1921 | EVENT | The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution. |
| 17th of March 1939 | EVENT | Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins, |
| 17th of March 1941 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 17th of March 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland. |
| 17th of March 1945 | EVENT | The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture. |
| 17th of March 1947 | EVENT | First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber. |
| 17th of March 1948 | EVENT | Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO. |
| 17th of March 1950 | EVENT | Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium". |
| 17th of March 1957 | EVENT | A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. |
| 17th of March 1958 | EVENT | The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. |
| 17th of March 1959 | EVENT | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. |
| 17th of March 1960 | EVENT | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. |
| 17th of March 1966 | EVENT | Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. |
| 17th of March 1969 | EVENT | Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. |
| 17th of March 1970 | EVENT | My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. |
| 17th of March 1973 | EVENT | The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family. |
| 17th of March 1979 | EVENT | The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. |
| 17th of March 1985 | EVENT | Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree. |
| 17th of March 1988 | EVENT | Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. |
| 17th of March 1988 | EVENT | A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. |
| 17th of March 1992 | EVENT | Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242. |
| 17th of March 1992 | EVENT | A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%. |
| 17th of March 2000 | EVENT | More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. |
| 17th of March 2003 | EVENT | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. |
| 17th of March 2004 | EVENT | Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis are destroyed. |
| 17th of March 2008 | EVENT | Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor. |
| 17th of March 1231 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Shijo of Japan (d. 1242) |
| 17th of March 1473 | BIRTHDAY | King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513) |
| 17th of March 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715) |
| 17th of March 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732) |
| 17th of March 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806) |
| 17th of March 1747 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Jahrig, German linguist (d. 1795) |
| 17th of March 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1864) |
| 17th of March 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847) |
| 17th of March 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Ebenezer Elliott, British poet (d. 1849) |
| 17th of March 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833) |
| 17th of March 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881) |
| 17th of March 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897) |
| 17th of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900) |
| 17th of March 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Greenaway, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1901) |
| 17th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910) |
| 17th of March 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930) |
| 17th of March 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930) |
| 17th of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939) |
| 17th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951) |
| 17th of March 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Skarlatos, Greek Olympic shooter (d. 1969) |
| 17th of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912) |
| 17th of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952) |
| 17th of March 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) |
| 17th of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923) |
| 17th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934) |
| 17th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974) |
| 17th of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961) |
| 17th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984) |
| 17th of March 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Green, American writer (d. 1981) |
| 17th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970) |
| 17th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970) |
| 17th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971) |
| 17th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Werblin, American football franchise owner (d. 1991) |
| 17th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996) |
| 17th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Vello Kaaristo, Estonian cross-country skier (d. 1965) |
| 17th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987) |
| 17th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Baugh, American football player (d. 2008) |
| 17th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006) |
| 17th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985) |
| 17th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965) |
| 17th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975) |
| 17th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general (d. 2009) |
| 17th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor |
| 17th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Siegfried Lenz, German writer |
| 17th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | William John McKeag, Canadian politician (d. 2007) |
| 17th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991) |
| 17th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Horn, American jazz flutist |
| 17th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001) |
| 17th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist |
| 17th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Myrlie Evers-Williams, American activist |
| 17th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer |
| 17th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Maloney, American actress |
| 17th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Mattingly, American astronaut |
| 17th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (d. 2008) |
| 17th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Wade, American singer and actor |
| 17th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993) |
| 17th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007) |
| 17th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Northern Irish clergyman |
| 17th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006) |
| 17th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Knox-Johnston, British Yachtsman |
| 17th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mark White, American politician |
| 17th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Kantner, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) |
| 17th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician |
| 17th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994) |
| 17th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model |
| 17th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager |
| 17th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter |
| 17th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hayden, American Air Force General, CIA director |
| 17th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982) |
| 17th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Andersson, Swedish politician |
| 17th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and producer |
| 17th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | James Morrow, American author |
| 17th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alex MacDonald, Scottish footballer and football manager |
| 17th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | William Gibson, American writer |
| 17th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Duffy, American actor |
| 17th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Lavoie, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 17th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager |
| 17th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter |
| 17th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer |
| 17th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Gorham, American musician (Thin Lizzy) |
| 17th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Russell, American actor |
| 17th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer |
| 17th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Horne, Animal rights activist (d. 2001) |
| 17th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Muncie, American football running back |
| 17th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001) |
| 17th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lesley-Anne Down, English actress |
| 17th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia McKinney, American politician, Presidential candidate |
| 17th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Sinise, American actor |
| 17th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist |
| 17th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer |
| 17th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kelly, American journalist (d. 2003) |
| 17th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster |
| 17th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Ainge, American basketball player and coach |
| 17th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Black, American rock singer |
| 17th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Clemenson, American actor |
| 17th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Vicki Lewis, American actress |
| 17th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Arye Gross, American actor |
| 17th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Bowie, American basketball player |
| 17th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Paul, English actor |
| 17th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Siemaszko, American actor |
| 17th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Bard, Swedish artist, singer (Army Of Lovers), music producer, and philosopher |
| 17th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006) |
| 17th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Clare Grogan, Scottish actress-singer |
| 17th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician |
| 17th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Peros, Canadian composer |
| 17th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor |
| 17th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Lowe, American actor |
| 17th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Dixon, English footballer |
| 17th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer |
| 17th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Sheffield, English actor |
| 17th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins) |
| 17th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Minkow, American criminal and fraudster |
| 17th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010) |
| 17th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mathew St. Patrick, American actor |
| 17th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Ford, American model |
| 17th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yanic Truesdale, Canadian actor |
| 17th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Ween, American musician (Ween) |
| 17th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Mueller, American baseball player |
| 17th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician |
| 17th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and musician (Brobdingnagian Bards) |
| 17th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mia Hamm, American soccer player |
| 17th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Corr, Irish singer and musician |
| 17th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rico Blanco, Filipino singer (Rivermaya) |
| 17th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vance Wilson, American baseball player |
| 17th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Woods, American football player |
| 17th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marisa Coughlan, American actress |
| 17th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Palotai, German keyboard player (Doro) |
| 17th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Dolan, British TV show host |
| 17th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Puneet Rajkumar, Indian (Kannada) actor, singer and director |
| 17th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mason Jennings, American folksinger |
| 17th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness) |
| 17th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian wrestler (d. 2009) |
| 17th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Zea, American actress |
| 17th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Holden, Canadian actress |
| 17th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brittany Daniel, American actress |
| 17th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Downs, American baseball player |
| 17th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Gately, Irish singer, musician, and actor (Boyzone) (d. 2009) |
| 17th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer |
| 17th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer |
| 17th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and director |
| 17th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model |
| 17th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress |
| 17th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sharman Joshi, Indian actor |
| 17th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Kramer Glickman, American actor and comedian |
| 17th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Samoa Joe, Samoan wrestler |
| 17th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Califf, American soccer player |
| 17th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Morgan, American pornographic actress |
| 17th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Korver, American basketball player |
| 17th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Servet Cetin, Turkish football player |
| 17th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Baddeley, Australian golfer |
| 17th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Pienaar, South African footballer |
| 17th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Meireles, Portuguese footballer |
| 17th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Vassiliki Arvaniti, Greek beach volleyball player |
| 17th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Olesya Rulin, Russian actress |
| 17th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Edin Dzeko, Bosnian footballer |
| 17th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Kane, British musician |
| 17th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Krisnan Inu, New Zealand rugby player |
| 17th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Ryan, American ice hockey player |
| 17th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Parent, Canadian hockey player |
| 17th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Kardashian, American model and singer |
| 17th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player |
| 17th of March 0180 | DEATH | Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (Born 121) |
| 17th of March 0460 | DEATH | Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland (Born 387) |
| 17th of March 0659 | DEATH | Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess (Born 626) |
| 17th of March 1040 | DEATH | Harold Harefoot, King of England |
| 17th of March 1058 | DEATH | King Lulach I of Scotland (Born 1030) |
| 17th of March 1199 | DEATH | Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow |
| 17th of March 1272 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (Born 1220) |
| 17th of March 1425 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (Born 1407) |
| 17th of March 1516 | DEATH | Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (Born 1478) |
| 17th of March 1565 | DEATH | Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (Born 1500) |
| 17th of March 1640 | DEATH | Philip Massinger, English dramatist (Born 1583) |
| 17th of March 1649 | DEATH | Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (Born 1610) |
| 17th of March 1680 | DEATH | Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (Born 1613) |
| 17th of March 1704 | DEATH | Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (Born 1641) |
| 17th of March 1713 | DEATH | Juraj Janosik, famous Slovak outlaw (Born 1688) |
| 17th of March 1715 | DEATH | Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (Born 1643) |
| 17th of March 1741 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (Born 1671) |
| 17th of March 1764 | DEATH | George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer |
| 17th of March 1782 | DEATH | Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (Born 1700) |
| 17th of March 1830 | DEATH | Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (Born 1764) |
| 17th of March 1846 | DEATH | Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (Born 1784) |
| 17th of March 1849 | DEATH | William II of the Netherlands (Born 1792) |
| 17th of March 1853 | DEATH | Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (Born 1803) |
| 17th of March 1871 | DEATH | Robert Chambers, Scottish naturalist (Born 1802) |
| 17th of March 1875 | DEATH | Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (Born 1832) |
| 17th of March 1893 | DEATH | Jules Ferry, French statesman (Born 1832) |
| 17th of March 1917 | DEATH | Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (Born 1838) |
| 17th of March 1926 | DEATH | Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (Born 1853) |
| 17th of March 1937 | DEATH | Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1863) |
| 17th of March 1941 | DEATH | Marguerite Nichols, American actress (Born 1895) |
| 17th of March 1946 | DEATH | Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (Born 1897) |
| 17th of March 1949 | DEATH | Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (Born 1882) |
| 17th of March 1956 | DEATH | Fred Allen, American actor and comedian (Born 1894) |
| 17th of March 1956 | DEATH | Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1897) |
| 17th of March 1957 | DEATH | Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (Born 1907) |
| 17th of March 1961 | DEATH | Susanna M. Salter, American politician (Born 1860) |
| 17th of March 1962 | DEATH | Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (Born 1896) |
| 17th of March 1965 | DEATH | Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach (Born 1862) |
| 17th of March 1974 | DEATH | Louis Kahn, American architect |
| 17th of March 1976 | DEATH | Luchino Visconti, Italian director (Born 1906) |
| 17th of March 1981 | DEATH | Paul Dean, American baseball player (Born 1913) |
| 17th of March 1983 | DEATH | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903) |
| 17th of March 1987 | DEATH | Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (Born 1914) |
| 17th of March 1988 | DEATH | Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (Born 1949) |
| 17th of March 1989 | DEATH | Merritt Butrick, American actor (Born 1959) |
| 17th of March 1990 | DEATH | Capucine, French actress (Born 1931) |
| 17th of March 1990 | DEATH | Ric Grech, British bass player (Blind Faith : Traffic) (Born 1946) |
| 17th of March 1992 | DEATH | Grace Stafford, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 17th of March 1993 | DEATH | Helen Hayes, American actress (Born 1900) |
| 17th of March 1994 | DEATH | Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (Born 1925) |
| 17th of March 1995 | DEATH | Ronnie Kray, British gangster (Born 1933) |
| 17th of March 1995 | DEATH | Rick Aviles, American actor (Born 1952) |
| 17th of March 1996 | DEATH | Rene Clement, French film director and screenwriter (Born 1913) |
| 17th of March 1996 | DEATH | Terry Stafford, American singer (Born 1941) |
| 17th of March 1997 | DEATH | Jermaine Stewart, American singer (Born 1957) |
| 17th of March 1999 | DEATH | Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (Born 1921) |
| 17th of March 1999 | DEATH | Rod Hull, British comedian (Born 1936) |
| 17th of March 2002 | DEATH | Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (Born 1911) |
| 17th of March 2002 | DEATH | Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (Born 1908) |
| 17th of March 2003 | DEATH | Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (Born 1902) |
| 17th of March 2004 | DEATH | J.J. Jackson, American television personality (Born 1941) |
| 17th of March 2004 | DEATH | Rachel Hudson, British murder victim (Born 1984) |
| 17th of March 2005 | DEATH | Andre Norton, American writer (Born 1912) |
| 17th of March 2005 | DEATH | George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (Born 1904) |
| 17th of March 2006 | DEATH | Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (Born 1948) |
| 17th of March 2006 | DEATH | Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (Born 1913) |
| 17th of March 2006 | DEATH | Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (Born 1955) |
| 17th of March 2006 | DEATH | Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (Born 1913) |
| 17th of March 2007 | DEATH | John Backus, American computer scientist (Born 1924) |
| 17th of March 2007 | DEATH | Roger Bennett, American gospel performer (Born 1959) |
| 17th of March 2007 | DEATH | Jim Cronin, British animal welfare activist (Born 1951) |
| 17th of March 2008 | DEATH | Roland Arnall, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (Born 1939) |
| 17th of March 2009 | DEATH | Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (Born 1937) |
| 17th of March 2010 | DEATH | Alex Chilton, American musician (Born 1950) |
| 17th of March 2010 | DEATH | Charlie Gillett, British musicologist and radio presenter (Born 1942) |