Famous People Born on March 17
Famous people born on March 17 include Harun al-Rashid (763), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920) and Nat King Cole (1919).
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Harun al-Rashid
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladeshi revolutionary and statesman (1920–1975)
Nat King Cole
American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Military ruler of Japan from 1585 to 1598
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer, industrialist and automotive pioneer (1834–1900)
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born ballet dancer (1938–1993)
Edin Džeko
Bosnian footballer (born 1986)
Shinji Kagawa
Japanese footballer (born 1989)
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist (born 1948)
James IV
King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513
Raul Meireles
Portuguese footballer (born 1983)
Stormy Daniels
American pornographic actress (born 1979)
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist (1881–1973)
Giovanni Trapattoni
Italian football player and manager (born 1939)
Katie Ledecky
American swimmer (born 1997)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Marcus Aurelius
Stoic philosopher, Roman emperor from 161 to 180
Ibn Khaldun
Arab Islamic scholar, historian and philosopher (1332–1406)
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
François de La Rochefoucauld
17th-century French moralist and author of "Maximes"
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700–1782)
Christian Doppler
Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803–1853)
Luchino Visconti
Italian theatre, opera, and cinema director (1906-1976)
Helen Hayes
American actress (1900–1993)
John Magufuli
President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
George F. Kennan
American diplomat, political scientist, and historian (1904–2005)