Famous People Born on March 17
Gottlieb Daimler
1834
German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (d. 1900)
Cito Gaston
1944
American baseball player and manager
(Image Credits)
"Cito" by photographed by Mike F. Campbell / 76wins at en.wikipedia - CC BY 2.5
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Wang Jin-pyng
1941
Taiwanese soldier and politician
(Image Credits)
"王金平委員" by 立法院 - Attribution
https://www.ly.gov.tw/Pages/List.aspx?nodeid=1320 (image)
Ross McLarty
1891
Australian politician, 17th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1962)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1920
Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
Sam Bowie
1961
American basketball player
(Image Credits)
"Sam Bowie during 1985 NBA Playoffs" by Lori Shepler, Los Angeles Times - CC BY 4.0 Original Source
Federico Fazio
1987
Argentine footballer
(Image Credits)
"Federico Fazio (cropped)" by @cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London - CC BY-SA 2.0
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Ebenezer Elliott
1781
English poet and educator (d. 1849)
Mikael Backlund
1989
Swedish ice hockey player
(Image Credits)
"Mikael Backlund 140328" by Resolute - CC BY-SA 3.0
Shinji Kagawa
1989
Japanese footballer
(Image Credits)
"Shinji Kagawa 2018 (cropped)" by Кагава Синдзи - CC BY-SA 3.0 Original Source
Walter Rudolf Hess
1881
Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
Fred T. Mackenzie
1935
American biologist and academic (d. 2024)