Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 17

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)