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| 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, 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, 1986 (March 17 1986) | Birth | Olesya Rulin, American actress | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1946 (March 17 1946) | Death | Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (born in 1897) | |
| March 17th, 1936 (March 17 1936) | Birth | Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer | |
| March 17th, 1936 (March 17 1936) | Birth | Ken Mattingly, American astronaut | |
| 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, 1916 (March 17 1916) | Birth | Ray Ellington, British singer (died in 1985) | |
| March 17th, 1906 (March 17 1906) | Event | The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. | |
| March 17th, 1886 (March 17 1886) | Birth | Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (died in 1974) | |
| March 17th, 1866 (March 17 1866) | Birth | Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1939) | |
| March 17th, 1856 (March 17 1856) | Birth | Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (died in 1910) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1676 (March 17 1676) | Birth | Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (died in 1732) | |
| March 17th, 1516 (March 17 1516) | Death | Giuliano di Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (born in 1478) | |
