The 76th day of the year, the 77th in a leap year
Born on 17 March
Every 17 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Pisces, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- PiscesWater, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Aquamarine, BloodstoneThe 1912 list put Bloodstone first.
- Birth flower
- DaffodilUsually taken today to mean new beginnings.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 17 March in any year.
Which weekday 17 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 17 March falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 17 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,772 babies were born on 17 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 308th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 17 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Harun al-Rashid | 763–809 | 5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809); his birth is dated 17 March 763 or February 766 |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 1920–1975 | President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 1537–1598 | Japanese samurai and daimyo |
| Nat King Cole | 1919–1965 | American singer and jazz pianist |
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1834–1900 | German engineer and industrialist |
| Rudolf Nureyev | 1938–1993 | Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer |
| Edin Džeko | 1986– | Bosnian association football player |
| Shinji Kagawa | 1989– | Japanese association football player |
| William Gibson | 1948– | American-Canadian speculative fiction writer |
| James IV | 1473–1513 | King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513 |
| Raul Meireles | 1983– | Portuguese association football player |
| Walter Rudolf Hess | 1881–1973 | Swiss physiologist |
| Stormy Daniels | 1979– | American pornographic actress and director |
| Giovanni Trapattoni | 1939– | Italian association football player and manager |
| Katie Ledecky | 1997– | American Olympic swimmer |
| John Boyega | 1992– | English actor |
| Rob Lowe | 1964– | American actor |
| Alexander McQueen | 1969–2010 | British fashion designer |
Died on 17 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Khaldun | 1332–1406 | historiographer and historian |
| Irène Joliot-Curie | 1897–1956 | French chemist and physicist |
| François de La Rochefoucauld | 1613–1680 | French author of maxims and memoirs |
| Daniel Bernoulli | 1700–1782 | Swiss mathematician and physicist |
| Christian Doppler | 1803–1853 | Austrian mathematician and physicist |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | 1784–1846 | German astronomer and mathematician |
| Luchino Visconti | 1906–1976 | Italian director |
| Helen Hayes | 1900–1993 | American actress |
| John Magufuli | 1959–2021 | 5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021 |
| George F. Kennan | 1904–2005 | American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian |
| Aleksei Brusilov | 1853–1926 | Russian and Soviet military commander |
| William II of the Netherlands | 1792–1849 | King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840 to 1849 |
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