| 93241 | August 17 | Birth | 1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) |
| 93242 | August 17 | Birth | 1911 – Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010) |
| 93243 | August 17 | Birth | 1913 – Mark Felt, American lawyer and agent, 2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008) |
| 93244 | August 17 | Birth | 1913 – Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989) |
| 93245 | August 17 | Birth | 1913 – Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (d. 1970) |
| 93246 | August 17 | Birth | 1914 – Bill Downs, American journalist (d. 1978) |
| 93247 | August 17 | Birth | 1914 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988) |
| 93248 | August 17 | Birth | 1916 – Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012) |
| 93249 | August 17 | Birth | 1918 – Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress and singer (d. 1985) |
| 93250 | August 17 | Birth | 1918 – Ike Quebec, American saxophonist and pianist (d. 1963) |
| 93251 | August 17 | Birth | 1918 – Michael John Wise, English geographer and academic (d. 2015) |
| 93252 | August 17 | Birth | 1919 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 93253 | August 17 | Birth | 1920 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (d. 2015) |
| 93254 | August 17 | Birth | 1920 – Lida Moser, American photographer and author (d. 2014) |
| 93255 | August 17 | Birth | 1921 – Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994) |
| 93256 | August 17 | Birth | 1922 – Roy Tattersall, England cricketer (d. 2011) |
| 93257 | August 17 | Birth | 1923 – Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (d. 2002) |
| 93258 | August 17 | Birth | 1926 – Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012) |
| 93259 | August 17 | Birth | 1926 – George Melly, English singer and critic (d. 2007) |
| 93260 | August 17 | Birth | 1926 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) |
| 93261 | August 17 | Birth | 1926 – Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th President of the People's Republic of China |
| 93262 | August 17 | Birth | 1927 – Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2009) |
| 93263 | August 17 | Birth | 1927 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (d. 2015) |
| 93264 | August 17 | Birth | 1928 – T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator |
| 93265 | August 17 | Birth | 1928 – Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011) |
| 93266 | August 17 | Birth | 1929 – Augie Blunt, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 93267 | August 17 | Birth | 1929 – Jimmy Donley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963) |
| 93268 | August 17 | Birth | 1929 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (d. 1977) |
| 93269 | August 17 | Birth | 1930 – Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2015) |
| 93270 | August 17 | Birth | 1930 – Ted Hughes, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 1998) |