| 106321 | September 17 | Birth | 1874 – Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic (d. 1970) |
| 106322 | September 17 | Birth | 1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950) |
| 106323 | September 17 | Birth | 1879 – Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (d. 1930) |
| 106324 | September 17 | Birth | 1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman and politician (d. 1973) |
| 106325 | September 17 | Birth | 1881 – Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1955) |
| 106326 | September 17 | Birth | 1883 – William Carlos Williams, American poet, author, and physician (d. 1963) |
| 106327 | September 17 | Birth | 1884 – Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (d. 1920) |
| 106328 | September 17 | Birth | 1886 – Anton Irv, Estonian captain (d. 1919) |
| 106329 | September 17 | Birth | 1890 – Gabriel Heatter, American journalist (d. 1972) |
| 106330 | September 17 | Birth | 1892 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch organist and composer (d. 1981) |
| 106331 | September 17 | Birth | 1895 – Georg Faehlmann, Russian-Estonian sailor (d. 1975) |
| 106332 | September 17 | Birth | 1897 – Earl Webb, American baseball player and coach (d. 1965) |
| 106333 | September 17 | Birth | 1900 – Hughie Critz, American baseball player (d. 1980) |
| 106334 | September 17 | Birth | 1900 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) |
| 106335 | September 17 | Birth | 1901 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (d. 1972) |
| 106336 | September 17 | Birth | 1902 – Bea Miles, Australian author (d. 1973) |
| 106337 | September 17 | Birth | 1903 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984) |
| 106338 | September 17 | Birth | 1903 – Frank O'Connor, Irish author and poet (d. 1966) |
| 106339 | September 17 | Birth | 1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971) |
| 106340 | September 17 | Birth | 1904 – Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian-English dancer and choreographer (d. 1988) |
| 106341 | September 17 | Birth | 1904 – Jerry Colonna, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1986) |
| 106342 | September 17 | Birth | 1904 – Edgar G. Ulmer, Czech-American director, screenwriter, and set designer (d. 1972) |
| 106343 | September 17 | Birth | 1905 – Vladan Desnica, Croatian author and poet (d. 1967) |
| 106344 | September 17 | Birth | 1906 – J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996) |
| 106345 | September 17 | Birth | 1906 – Edgar Wayburn, American physician and environmentalist (d. 2010) |
| 106346 | September 17 | Birth | 1907 – Warren E. Burger, American lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995) |
| 106347 | September 17 | Birth | 1908 – John Creasey, English author and politician (d. 1973) |
| 106348 | September 17 | Birth | 1908 – Rafael Israelyan, Georgian-Armenian architect and educator, designed the Sardarapat Memorial and St. Vartan Cathedral (d. 1973) |
| 106349 | September 17 | Birth | 1909 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (d. 1968) |
| 106350 | September 17 | Birth | 1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (d. 2011) |