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| March 17th, 2045 (March 17 2045) | Event | In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. | Julius Caesar Quotes |
| March 17th, 2045 (March 17 2045) | Death | Titus Labienus, Roman leader | |
| March 17th, 2008 (March 17 2008) | Event | New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor. | |
| March 17th, 2008 (March 17 2008) | Death | Roland Arnall, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (born in 1939) | |
| March 17th, 2007 (March 17 2007) | Death | John Backus, American computer scientist (born in 1924) | |
| March 17th, 2007 (March 17 2007) | Death | Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (born in 1959) | |
| March 17th, 2007 (March 17 2007) | Death | Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, Englandied in (born in 1951) | |
| March 17th, 2006 (March 17 2006) | Death | Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (born in 1948) | |
| March 17th, 2006 (March 17 2006) | Death | Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (born in 1913) | |
| March 17th, 2006 (March 17 2006) | Death | Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (born in 1913) | |
| March 17th, 2006 (March 17 2006) | Death | Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (born in 1955) | |
| March 17th, 2005 (March 17 2005) | Death | George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (born in 1904) | George F. Kennan Quotes |
| March 17th, 2005 (March 17 2005) | Death | Andre Norton, American writer (born in 1912) | |
| March 17th, 2004 (March 17 2004) | Event | Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis. | |
| March 17th, 2004 (March 17 2004) | Death | J. J. Jackson, American television personality (born in 1941) | |
| March 17th, 2003 (March 17 2003) | Event | British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq. | |
| March 17th, 2003 (March 17 2003) | Death | Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (born in 1902) | |
| March 17th, 2002 (March 17 2002) | Death | Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (born in 1911) | |
| March 17th, 2002 (March 17 2002) | Death | Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (born in 1908) | |
| March 17th, 2000 (March 17 2000) | Event | The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. | |
| March 17th, 1999 (March 17 1999) | Death | Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (born in 1921) | |
| March 17th, 1999 (March 17 1999) | Death | Rod Hull, British comedian (born in 1936) | |
| March 17th, 1996 (March 17 1996) | Death | Rene Clement, French film director and screenwriter (born in 1913) | |
| March 17th, 1996 (March 17 1996) | Death | Terry Stafford, American singer (born in 1941) | |
| March 17th, 1995 (March 17 1995) | Death | Ronnie Kray, British gangster (born in 1933) | |
| March 17th, 1995 (March 17 1995) | Death | Rick Aviles, American actor (born in 1952) | |
| March 17th, 1994 (March 17 1994) | Death | Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (born in 1925) | |
| March 17th, 1993 (March 17 1993) | Death | Helen Hayes, American actress (born in 1900) | Helen Hayes Quotes |
| March 17th, 1992 (March 17 1992) | Event | A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
| March 17th, 1992 (March 17 1992) | Death | Grace Stafford, American actress (born in 1903) | |
| March 17th, 1990 (March 17 1990) | Death | Capucine, French actress (born in 1931) | |
| March 17th, 1990 (March 17 1990) | Death | Ric Grech, British bass player (Blind FaithTraffic) (born in 1946) | |
| March 17th, 1989 (March 17 1989) | Death | Merritt Butrick, American actor (born in 1959) | |
| March 17th, 1988 (March 17 1988) | Event | A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. | |
| March 17th, 1988 (March 17 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 (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. | |
| March 17th, 1988 (March 17 1988) | Death | Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (born in 1949) | |
| March 17th, 1987 (March 17 1987) | Death | Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (born in 1914) | |
| March 17th, 1986 (March 17 1986) | Birth | Olesya Rulin, American actress | |
| March 17th, 1985 (March 17 1985) | Event | Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree. | |
| March 17th, 1983 (March 17 1983) | Death | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1903) | |
| March 17th, 1982 (March 17 1982) | Birth | Steven Pienaar, South African footballer | |
| March 17th, 1981 (March 17 1981) | Birth | Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player | |
| March 17th, 1981 (March 17 1981) | Death | Paul Dean, American baseball player (born in 1913) | |
| March 17th, 1980 (March 17 1980) | Birth | Danny Califf, American soccer player | |
| March 17th, 1979 (March 17 1979) | Event | The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. | |
| March 17th, 1979 (March 17 1979) | Birth | Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 17th, 1979 (March 17 1979) | Birth | Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler | |
| March 17th, 1979 (March 17 1979) | Birth | Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress | |
| March 17th, 1978 (March 17 1978) | Birth | Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and film director | |
| March 17th, 1976 (March 17 1976) | Birth | Stephen Gately, Irish singer, musician, and actor (Boyzone) | |
| March 17th, 1976 (March 17 1976) | Birth | Brittany Daniel, American actress | |
| March 17th, 1976 (March 17 1976) | Birth | Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer | |
| March 17th, 1976 (March 17 1976) | Birth | Alvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer | |
| March 17th, 1976 (March 17 1976) | Birth | Scott Downs, American baseball player | |
| March 17th, 1976 (March 17 1976) | Death | Luchino Visconti, Italian director (born in 1906) | |
| March 17th, 1975 (March 17 1975) | Event | The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad enter third and final bankruptcy, and William M. Gibbons selected as receiver and trustee for the railroad. | |
| March 17th, 1975 (March 17 1975) | Birth | Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness) | |
| March 17th, 1975 (March 17 1975) | Birth | Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler | |
| March 17th, 1975 (March 17 1975) | Birth | Natalie Zea, American actress | |
| March 17th, 1974 (March 17 1974) | Birth | Marisa Coughlan, American actress | |
| March 17th, 1974 (March 17 1974) | Birth | Mark Dolan, TV show host | |
| March 17th, 1974 (March 17 1974) | Death | Louis Kahn, American architect | |
| March 17th, 1973 (March 17 1973) | Event | The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family. | |
| March 17th, 1973 (March 17 1973) | Birth | Rico Blanco, Filipino singer (Rivermaya) | |
| March 17th, 1973 (March 17 1973) | Birth | Caroline Corr, Irish singer and musician | |
| March 17th, 1973 (March 17 1973) | Birth | Vance Wilson, American baseball player | |
| March 17th, 1973 (March 17 1973) | Birth | Jerome Woods, American Football player for the Kansas City Chiefs | |
| March 17th, 1972 (March 17 1972) | Birth | Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician | |
| March 17th, 1972 (March 17 1972) | Birth | Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards) | |
| March 17th, 1972 (March 17 1972) | Birth | Mia Hamm, American soccer player | |
| March 17th, 1971 (March 17 1971) | Birth | Bill Mueller, American baseball player | |
| March 17th, 1970 (March 17 1970) | Event | My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. | |
| March 17th, 1970 (March 17 1970) | Birth | Gene Ween, American Musician (Ween) | |
| March 17th, 1970 (March 17 1970) | Birth | Yanic Truesdale, Canadian actor | |
| March 17th, 1969 (March 17 1969) | Event | Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. | Golda Meir Quotes |
| March 17th, 1969 (March 17 1969) | Birth | Mathew St. Patrick, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1969 (March 17 1969) | Birth | Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer | |
| March 17th, 1967 (March 17 1967) | Birth | Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins) | Billy Corgan Quotes |
| March 17th, 1967 (March 17 1967) | Birth | Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud) | |
| March 17th, 1966 (March 17 1966) | Event | Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. | |
| March 17th, 1966 (March 17 1966) | Birth | Jeremy Sheffield, English actor | |
| March 17th, 1965 (March 17 1965) | Death | Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach, player, and innovator (born in 1862) | |
| March 17th, 1964 (March 17 1964) | Birth | Rob Lowe, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1964 (March 17 1964) | Birth | Lee Dixon, English footballer | |
| March 17th, 1964 (March 17 1964) | Birth | Jacques Songo o, Cameroonian footballer | |
| March 17th, 1963 (March 17 1963) | Birth | Nick Peros, Canadian composer | |
| March 17th, 1963 (March 17 1963) | Birth | Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor | |
| March 17th, 1962 (March 17 1962) | Birth | Clare Grogan, Scottish actress-singer | |
| March 17th, 1962 (March 17 1962) | Birth | Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician | |
| March 17th, 1961 (March 17 1961) | Birth | Casey Siemaszko, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1961 (March 17 1961) | Birth | Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (died in 2006) | |
| March 17th, 1961 (March 17 1961) | Birth | Andrew Paul, English actor | |
| March 17th, 1961 (March 17 1961) | Death | Susanna M. Salter, Mayor of Argonia, Kansas (born in 1860) | |
| March 17th, 1960 (March 17 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. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| March 17th, 1960 (March 17 1960) | Birth | Arye Gross, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1959 (March 17 1959) | Event | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. | Tenzin Gyatso Quotes |
| March 17th, 1959 (March 17 1959) | Birth | Danny Ainge, American basketball player and coach | |
| March 17th, 1959 (March 17 1959) | Birth | Christian Clemenson, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1958 (March 17 1958) | Event | The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. | |
| March 17th, 1958 (March 17 1958) | Birth | Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster | |
| March 17th, 1957 (March 17 1957) | Event | A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. | |
| March 17th, 1957 (March 17 1957) | Birth | Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer | |
| March 17th, 1957 (March 17 1957) | Birth | Michael Kelly, American journalist (died in 2003) | |
| March 17th, 1957 (March 17 1957) | Death | Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (born in 1907) | |
| March 17th, 1956 (March 17 1956) | Birth | Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist | |
| March 17th, 1956 (March 17 1956) | Death | Fred Allen, American actor and comedian (born in 1894) | Fred Allen Quotes |
| March 17th, 1956 (March 17 1956) | Death | Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1897) | |
| March 17th, 1955 (March 17 1955) | Birth | Gary Sinise, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1955 (March 17 1955) | Birth | Cynthia McKinney, American politician | |
| March 17th, 1954 (March 17 1954) | Birth | Lesley-Anne Down, English actress | |
| March 17th, 1953 (March 17 1953) | Birth | Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (died in 2001) | |
| March 17th, 1953 (March 17 1953) | Birth | Chuck Muncie, American former football running back | |
| March 17th, 1952 (March 17 1952) | Birth | Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer | |
| March 17th, 1951 (March 17 1951) | Birth | Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer | |
| March 17th, 1951 (March 17 1951) | Birth | Scott Gorham, American musician (Thin Lizzy) | |
| March 17th, 1951 (March 17 1951) | Birth | Kurt Russell, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1951 (March 17 1951) | Birth | Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 17th, 1950 (March 17 1950) | Event | University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium". | |
| March 17th, 1950 (March 17 1950) | Birth | Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter | |
| March 17th, 1949 (March 17 1949) | Birth | Patrick Duffy, American actor | |
| March 17th, 1949 (March 17 1949) | Birth | Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager | |
| March 17th, 1949 (March 17 1949) | Birth | Daniel Lavoie, French Canadian singer and songwriter | |
| March 17th, 1949 (March 17 1949) | Death | Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (born in 1882) | |
| March 17th, 1948 (March 17 1948) | Event | Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement. | |
| March 17th, 1948 (March 17 1948) | Birth | William Gibson, American writer | |
| March 17th, 1948 (March 17 1948) | Birth | Alex MacDonald, Scottish Footballer and football manager | |
| March 17th, 1947 (March 17 1947) | Birth | James Morrow, American author | |
| March 17th, 1947 (March 17 1947) | Birth | Jan Andersson, Swedish politician | |
| March 17th, 1947 (March 17 1947) | Birth | Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer | |
| March 17th, 1946 (March 17 1946) | Death | Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (born in 1897) | |
| March 17th, 1945 (March 17 1945) | Event | The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture. | |
| March 17th, 1945 (March 17 1945) | Birth | Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (died in 1982) | |
| March 17th, 1945 (March 17 1945) | Birth | Michael Hayden, General USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
| March 17th, 1945 (March 17 1945) | Birth | Katri Helena, Finnish singer | |
| March 17th, 1944 (March 17 1944) | Birth | Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model | |
| March 17th, 1944 (March 17 1944) | Birth | Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager | |
| March 17th, 1944 (March 17 1944) | Birth | John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter | |
| March 17th, 1942 (March 17 1942) | Event | Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland). | |
| March 17th, 1942 (March 17 1942) | Birth | John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (died in 1994) | |
| March 17th, 1942 (March 17 1942) | Birth | Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek composer, singer and actor | |
| March 17th, 1941 (March 17 1941) | Event | In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | |
| March 17th, 1941 (March 17 1941) | Birth | Paul Kantner, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) | |
| March 17th, 1941 (March 17 1941) | Birth | Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician | An Wang Quotes |
| March 17th, 1941 (March 17 1941) | Death | Marguerite Nichols, American actress (born in 1895) | |
| March 17th, 1940 (March 17 1940) | Birth | Mark White, American politician | |
| March 17th, 1939 (March 17 1939) | Event | Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out. | |
| March 17th, 1939 (March 17 1939) | Birth | Jim Gary, American sculptor (died in 2006) | |
| March 17th, 1939 (March 17 1939) | Birth | Robin Knox-Johnston, British Yachtsman | |
| March 17th, 1938 (March 17 1938) | Birth | Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (died in 1993) | |
| March 17th, 1938 (March 17 1938) | Birth | Keith Michael Patrick O Brien, Northern Irish clergyman | |
| March 17th, 1938 (March 17 1938) | Birth | Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (died in 2007) | |
| March 17th, 1937 (March 17 1937) | Birth | Adam Wade, American singer and actor | |
| March 17th, 1937 (March 17 1937) | Death | Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1863) | |
| March 17th, 1936 (March 17 1936) | Birth | Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer | |
| March 17th, 1936 (March 17 1936) | Birth | Ken Mattingly, American astronaut | |
| March 17th, 1932 (March 17 1932) | Birth | Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist | |
| March 17th, 1931 (March 17 1931) | Birth | David Peakall, British scientist (died in 2001) | |
| March 17th, 1930 (March 17 1930) | Birth | James Irwin, American astronaut (died in 1991) | |
| March 17th, 1928 (March 17 1928) | Birth | William John McKeag, Canadian politician (died in 2007) | |
| March 17th, 1926 (March 17 1926) | Birth | Siegfried Lenz, German writer | |
| March 17th, 1926 (March 17 1926) | Death | Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (born in 1853) | |
| March 17th, 1925 (March 17 1925) | Birth | Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor | |
| March 17th, 1922 (March 17 1922) | Birth | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (died in 1975) | |
| March 17th, 1921 (March 17 1921) | Event | The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution. | |
| March 17th, 1919 (March 17 1919) | Birth | Nat King Cole, American singer (died in 1965) | |
| March 17th, 1917 (March 17 1917) | Event | Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School. | |
| March 17th, 1917 (March 17 1917) | Death | Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (born in 1838) | Philo Quotes |
| March 17th, 1916 (March 17 1916) | Birth | Ray Ellington, British singer (died in 1985) | |
| March 17th, 1915 (March 17 1915) | Birth | Henry Bumstead, American art director (died in 2006) | |
| March 17th, 1914 (March 17 1914) | Birth | Sammy Baugh, American football player | |
| March 17th, 1913 (March 17 1913) | Event | The Uruguayan Air Force is founded. | |
| March 17th, 1912 (March 17 1912) | Birth | Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (died in 1987) | |
| March 17th, 1912 (March 17 1912) | Death | Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (born in 1880) | |
| March 17th, 1910 (March 17 1910) | Event | Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912). | |
| March 17th, 1908 (March 17 1908) | Birth | Brigitte Helm, German actress (died in 1996) | |
| March 17th, 1907 (March 17 1907) | Birth | Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (died in 1991) | |
| March 17th, 1906 (March 17 1906) | Event | The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. | |
| March 17th, 1902 (March 17 1902) | Birth | Bobby Jones, American golfer (died in 1971) | |
| March 17th, 1901 (March 17 1901) | Event | A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation. | Vincent Van Gogh Quotes |
| March 17th, 1901 (March 17 1901) | Birth | Alfred Newman, American film composer (died in 1970) | |
| March 17th, 1897 (March 17 1897) | Birth | Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (died in 1970) | |
| March 17th, 1894 (March 17 1894) | Birth | Paul Green, American writer (died in 1981) | |
| March 17th, 1893 (March 17 1893) | Death | Jules Ferry, French statesman (born in 1832) | |
| March 17th, 1892 (March 17 1892) | Birth | Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (died in 1984) | |
| March 17th, 1888 (March 17 1888) | Birth | Paul Ramadier, French politician (died in 1961) | |
| March 17th, 1886 (March 17 1886) | Birth | Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (died in 1974) | |
| March 17th, 1884 (March 17 1884) | Birth | Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (died in 1934) | |
| March 17th, 1883 (March 17 1883) | Birth | Urmuz, Romanian writer (died in 1923) | |
| March 17th, 1881 (March 17 1881) | Birth | Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1973) | Rudolf Hess Quotes |
| March 17th, 1880 (March 17 1880) | Birth | Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (died in 1952) | |
| March 17th, 1880 (March 17 1880) | Birth | Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (died in 1912) | |
| March 17th, 1875 (March 17 1875) | Death | Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (born in 1832) | |
| March 17th, 1870 (March 17 1870) | Birth | Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (died in 1951) | Horace Quotes |
| March 17th, 1866 (March 17 1866) | Birth | Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1939) | |
| March 17th, 1862 (March 17 1862) | Birth | Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (died in 1930) | |
| March 17th, 1861 (March 17 1861) | Event | The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed. | |
| March 17th, 1856 (March 17 1856) | Birth | Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (died in 1910) | |
| March 17th, 1853 (March 17 1853) | Death | Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician (born in 1803) | |
| March 17th, 1849 (March 17 1849) | Death | William II of the Netherlands (born in 1792) | |
| March 17th, 1846 (March 17 1846) | Birth | Kate Greenaway, English children s author and illustrator (died in 1901) | |
| March 17th, 1846 (March 17 1846) | Death | Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (born in 1784) | |
| March 17th, 1845 (March 17 1845) | Event | The rubber band is patented. | |
| March 17th, 1834 (March 17 1834) | Birth | Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (died in 1900) | |
| March 17th, 1830 (March 17 1830) | Death | Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (born in 1764) | |
| March 17th, 1820 (March 17 1820) | Birth | Jean Ingelow, English poet (died in 1897) | Jean Ingelow Quotes |
| March 17th, 1805 (March 17 1805) | Event | The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King. | |
| March 17th, 1804 (March 17 1804) | Birth | Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (died in 1881) | |
| March 17th, 1787 (March 17 1787) | Birth | Edmund Kean, English actor (died in 1833) | |
| March 17th, 1782 (March 17 1782) | Death | Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (born in 1700) | |
| March 17th, 1781 (March 17 1781) | Birth | Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer " (died in 1849) | |
| March 17th, 1780 (March 17 1780) | Birth | Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (died in 1847) | |
| March 17th, 1777 (March 17 1777) | Birth | Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (died in 1864) | |
| March 17th, 1776 (March 17 1776) | Event | American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city. | George Washington Quotes |
| March 17th, 1764 (March 17 1764) | Death | George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer | |
| March 17th, 1756 (March 17 1756) | Event | St. Patrick s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern). | |
| March 17th, 1741 (March 17 1741) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born in 1671) | |
| March 17th, 1725 (March 17 1725) | Birth | Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (died in 1806) | |
| March 17th, 1715 (March 17 1715) | Death | Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (born in 1643) | |
| March 17th, 1713 (March 17 1713) | Death | Juraj Janosik, famous Slovak outlaw [born in 1688) | |
| March 17th, 1704 (March 17 1704) | Death | Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (born in 1641) | |
| March 17th, 1680 (March 17 1680) | Death | Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (born in 1613) | Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| March 17th, 1676 (March 17 1676) | Birth | Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (died in 1732) | |
| March 17th, 1649 (March 17 1649) | Death | Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (born in 1610) | |
| March 17th, 1640 (March 17 1640) | Death | Philip Massinger, English dramatist (born in 1583) | Philip Massinger Quotes |
| March 17th, 1628 (March 17 1628) | Birth | Francois Girardon, French sculptor (died in 1715) | |
| March 17th, 1565 (March 17 1565) | Death | Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born in 1500) | |
| March 17th, 1516 (March 17 1516) | Death | Giuliano di Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (born in 1478) | |
| March 17th, 1473 (March 17 1473) | Birth | King James IV of Scotland (died in 1513) | |
| March 17th, 1425 (March 17 1425) | Death | Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (born in 1407) | |
| March 17th, 1337 (March 17 1337) | Event | Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England. | |
| March 17th, 1272 (March 17 1272) | Death | Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (born in 1220) | |
| March 17th, 1231 (March 17 1231) | Birth | Emperor Shijo of Japan (died in 1242) | |
| March 17th, 1199 (March 17 1199) | Death | Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow | |
| March 17th, 1058 (March 17 1058) | Death | King Lulach I of Scotland | |
| March 17th, 1040 (March 17 1040) | Death | Harold Harefoot, King of England | |
| March 17th, 0659 (March 17 0659) | Death | Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess | |
| March 17th, 0493 (March 17 0493) | Death | 461 or Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland | Saint Patrick Quotes |
| March 17th, 0180 (March 17 0180) | Event | Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor of the Roman Empire. | Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| March 17th, 0180 (March 17 0180) | Death | Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (born in 121) | Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
