| 30031 | March 17 | Death | 1962 – Pat Clayton, English soldier and surveyor (b. 1896) |
| 30032 | March 17 | Death | 1965 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862) |
| 30033 | March 17 | Death | 1969 – Frederick Garfield Gilmore, American boxer (b. 1887) |
| 30034 | March 17 | Death | 1974 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901) |
| 30035 | March 17 | Death | 1976 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906) |
| 30036 | March 17 | Death | 1981 – Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913) |
| 30037 | March 17 | Death | 1983 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| 30038 | March 17 | Death | 1987 – Santo Trafficante, Jr., American mob boss (b. 1914) |
| 30039 | March 17 | Death | 1988 – Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949) |
| 30040 | March 17 | Death | 1989 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959) |
| 30041 | March 17 | Death | 1990 – Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1931) |
| 30042 | March 17 | Death | 1990 – Ric Grech, Ukrainian-English bass player (Family, Blind Faith, and Traffic) (b. 1946) |
| 30043 | March 17 | Death | 1992 – Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903) |
| 30044 | March 17 | Death | 1993 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900) |
| 30045 | March 17 | Death | 1994 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925) |
| 30046 | March 17 | Death | 1995 – Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952) |
| 30047 | March 17 | Death | 1995 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (b. 1933) |
| 30048 | March 17 | Death | 1996 – René Clément, French director and screenwriter (b. 1913) |
| 30049 | March 17 | Death | 1996 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
| 30050 | March 17 | Death | 1997 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1957) |
| 30051 | March 17 | Death | 1998 – Harold Copp, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1915) |
| 30052 | March 17 | Death | 1999 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer (b. 1921) |
| 30053 | March 17 | Death | 1999 – Rod Hull, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
| 30054 | March 17 | Death | 1999 – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist (b. 1905) |
| 30055 | March 17 | Death | 2002 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress and producer (b. 1911) |
| 30056 | March 17 | Death | 2002 – Văn Tiến Dũng, Vietnamese general and politician, 6th Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1917) |
| 30057 | March 17 | Death | 2002 – Sylvester Weaver, American broadcaster, created the Today Show and The Tonight Show (b. 1908) |
| 30058 | March 17 | Death | 2003 – Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1902) |
| 30059 | March 17 | Death | 2004 – Rachel Hudson, English murder victim (b. 1984) |
| 30060 | March 17 | Death | 2004 – J.J. Jackson, American radio and television host (b. 1941) |