Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 17
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Births
- 1473 – King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513) (pictured)
- 1777 – Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1864)
- 1919 – Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
- 1938 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
- 1951 – Kurt Russell, American actor
- 1972 – Mia Hamm, American soccer player
- 1975 – Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor and producer (d. 2021)
Deaths
- 180 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121)
- 1741 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
- 1993 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)