Famous people born on 17 March

• Sheikh Mujibur RahmanPresident of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh · 1920–1975
  55 yrs
• Nat King ColeAmerican singer and jazz pianist · 1919–1965
  45 yrs
• Gottlieb DaimlerGerman engineer and industrialist · 1834–1900
  65 yrs
• Rudolf NureyevSoviet ballet dancer and choreographer · 1938–1993
  54 yrs
• Kalpana ChawlaAmerican astronaut · 1962–2003
  40 yrs
• Manon Roland ↗French revolutionary · 1754–1793
  39 yrs
• Walter Rudolf Hess ↗Swiss physiologist · 1881–1973
  92 yrs
• Tolui ↗Son of Genghis Khan and regent of the Mongol Empire · 1191–1232
  41 yrs
• Edmund Kean ↗English actor · 1787–1833
  46 yrs
• Gabriel Narutowicz ↗Polish politician · 1865–1922
  57 yrs
• Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen ↗German writer · 1622–1676
  54 yrs
• Mikhail Vrubel ↗Russian painter · 1856–1910
  54 yrs
• James Irwin ↗American astronaut · 1930–1991
  61 yrs
• Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar ↗Kannada actor · 1974–2021
  47 yrs
• John Wayne Gacy ↗American serial killer · 1942–1994
  52 yrs
• Alfred Newman ↗American composer · 1900–1970
  69 yrs
• Takeo Miki ↗Japanese politician · 1907–1988
  81 yrs
• Ken Mattingly ↗American astronaut · 1936–2023
  87 yrs
• Elis Regina ↗Brazilian singer of popular and jazz music · 1945–1982
  36 yrs
• Kaʻahumanu ↗Queen consort of Hawaii · 1768–1832
  64 yrs
• Peter L. Berger ↗American sociologist · 1929–2017
  88 yrs
• Paul Kantner ↗American singer and guitarist · 1941–2016
  74 yrs
• Petr Uspensky ↗Russian esotericist · 1878–1947
  69 yrs
• Rosso Fiorentino ↗Italian painter · 1494–1540
  46 yrs
• Carsten Niebuhr ↗German mathematician, botanist, cartographer and explorer in Danish service · 1733–1815
  82 yrs
• Francesco Albani ↗Baroque painter · 1578–1660
  82 yrs
• Karl Gutzkow ↗German writer · 1811–1878
  67 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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