| 29731 | March 17 | Birth | 1628 – François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715) |
| 29732 | March 17 | Birth | 1665 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichord player and composer (d. 1729) |
| 29733 | March 17 | Birth | 1676 – Thomas Boston, Scottish philosopher and theologian (d. 1732) |
| 29734 | March 17 | Birth | 1686 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter and engraver (d. 1755) |
| 29735 | March 17 | Birth | 1725 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (d. 1806) |
| 29736 | March 17 | Birth | 1747 – Johannes Jährig, German linguist (d. 1795) |
| 29737 | March 17 | Birth | 1777 – Patrick Brontë, Irish-English priest and author (d. 1861) |
| 29738 | March 17 | Birth | 1777 – Roger B. Taney, American politician and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1864) |
| 29739 | March 17 | Birth | 1780 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister, economist, and educator (d. 1847) |
| 29740 | March 17 | Birth | 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, English poet and educator (d. 1849) |
| 29741 | March 17 | Birth | 1804 – Jim Bridger, American fur trader and explorer (d. 1881) |
| 29742 | March 17 | Birth | 1820 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and author (d. 1897) |
| 29743 | March 17 | Birth | 1834 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (d. 1900) |
| 29744 | March 17 | Birth | 1839 – Josef Rheinberger, Liechtensteiner-German organist and composer (d. 1901) |
| 29745 | March 17 | Birth | 1846 – Kate Greenaway, English author and illustrator (d. 1901) |
| 29746 | March 17 | Birth | 1849 – Charles F. Brush, American inventor, co-invented the Arc lamp (d. 1929) |
| 29747 | March 17 | Birth | 1856 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910) |
| 29748 | March 17 | Birth | 1862 – Silvio Gesell, Belgian merchant and economist (d. 1930) |
| 29749 | March 17 | Birth | 1864 – Joseph Baptista, Indian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1930) |
| 29750 | March 17 | Birth | 1866 – Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1939) |
| 29751 | March 17 | Birth | 1870 – Horace Donisthorpe, English entomologist and myrmecologist (d. 1951) |
| 29752 | March 17 | Birth | 1872 – Konstantinos Skarlatos, Greek general and target shooter (d. 1969) |
| 29753 | March 17 | Birth | 1876 – Frederick Ayres, American composer (d. 1926) |
| 29754 | March 17 | Birth | 1877 – Frank Castleman, American football player and coach (d. 1946) |
| 29755 | March 17 | Birth | 1877 – Otto Gross, Austrian-German psychoanalyst and philosopher (d. 1920) |
| 29756 | March 17 | Birth | 1880 – Patrick Hastings, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (d. 1952) |
| 29757 | March 17 | Birth | 1880 – Lawrence Oates, English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1912) |
| 29758 | March 17 | Birth | 1881 – Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) |
| 29759 | March 17 | Birth | 1883 – Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and judge (d. 1923) |
| 29760 | March 17 | Birth | 1884 – Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band and Louisiana Five) (d. 1934) |