| 93421 | August 17 | Birth | 1988 – Brady Corbet, American actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 93422 | August 17 | Birth | 1988 – Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Morning Has Occurred) |
| 93423 | August 17 | Birth | 1988 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress |
| 93424 | August 17 | Birth | 1989 – Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Turkish actress |
| 93425 | August 17 | Birth | 1989 – Lil B, American rapper and producer (The Pack) |
| 93426 | August 17 | Birth | 1989 – Elena Hight, American snowboarder |
| 93427 | August 17 | Birth | 1989 – Frederick Lau, German actor |
| 93428 | August 17 | Birth | 1990 – Colin Bates, American actor, singer, and dancer |
| 93429 | August 17 | Birth | 1990 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress |
| 93430 | August 17 | Birth | 1991 – Austin Butler, American actor and singer |
| 93431 | August 17 | Birth | 1991 – Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian model, Puteri Indonesia 2009 |
| 93432 | August 17 | Birth | 1992 – Paige, English wrestler |
| 93433 | August 17 | Birth | 1992 – Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013) |
| 93434 | August 17 | Birth | 1993 – Cinta Laura, German-Indonesian actress and singer |
| 93435 | August 17 | Birth | 1993 – Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer |
| 93436 | August 17 | Birth | 1994 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress |
| 93437 | August 17 | Birth | 1995 – Gracie Gold, American figure skater |
| 93438 | August 17 | Birth | 1996 – Ella Cruz, Filipino actress and dancer |
| 93439 | August 17 | Death | 1153 – Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130) |
| 93440 | August 17 | Death | 1304 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243) |
| 93441 | August 17 | Death | 1324 – Irene of Brunswick (b. 1293) |
| 93442 | August 17 | Death | 1338 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301) |
| 93443 | August 17 | Death | 1433 – Jan of Tarnów (b. 1367) |
| 93444 | August 17 | Death | 1510 – Edmund Dudley, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1462) |
| 93445 | August 17 | Death | 1657 – Robert Blake, English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1599) |
| 93446 | August 17 | Death | 1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641) |
| 93447 | August 17 | Death | 1676 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621) |
| 93448 | August 17 | Death | 1720 – Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654) |
| 93449 | August 17 | Death | 1723 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668) |
| 93450 | August 17 | Death | 1768 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703) |