March 17 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 17, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#235 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 17 birthdays
Gottlieb Daimler · German engineer and industrialist1834
Walter Rudolf Hess · Swiss physiologist1881
Nat King Cole · American singer and jazz pianist1919
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman · President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh1920
Peter L. Berger · American sociologist1929
James Irwin · American astronaut1930
Ken Mattingly · American astronaut1936
Rudolf Nureyev · Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer1938
Giovanni Trapattoni · Italian association football player and manager1939
William Gibson · American-Canadian speculative fiction writer1948
Kurt Russell · American actor1951
Gary Sinise · American actor1955
Kalpana Chawla · American astronaut1962
Rob Lowe · American actor1964
Mia Hamm · American soccer player1972
Stormy Daniels · American pornographic actress and director1979
Raul Meireles · Portuguese association football player1983
Edin Džeko · Bosnian association football player1986
Shinji Kagawa · Japanese association football player1989
Katie Ledecky · American Olympic swimmer1997
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: The 11‑month Siege of Boston ended with the evacuation of the city's British garrison.
1902The Dorchester Heights Monument, memorializing the siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War, was dedicated.
1973Slava Veder took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
2011First Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing military intervention in Libya to protect civilians.
1960U.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.
1968As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
1988Eritrean War of Independence: Eritrean People's Liberation Front troops encircled Ethiopian forces in the Battle of Afabet, gaining a decisive victory three days later.
2003Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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