March 17
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Art and culture
- 1901 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
- 1942 - Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland).
- 1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
Births
- 1908 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
- 1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
- 1948 - William Gibson, American writer
- 1950 - Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter
Deaths
- 1974 - Louis Kahn, American architect
- 1976 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (b. 1906)
- xxxx - Carlo Jacono (March 17, 1929 - June 7, 2000) was an Italian illustrator detective novel
- xxxx - Grandville (September 13, 1803 – March 17, 1847), French caricaturist, generally known by the pseudonym of J.J. Grandville
- xxxx - Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily illustrated publications of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today. Hetzel was also the principal editor of Victor Hugo and other French writers.
- xxxx - Eric Stanton (September 30 1926–March 17 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist.
- xxxx - John Wayne Gacy (March 17 1942 - May 10 1994) also known as The Killer Clown, was an American serial killer.
- xxxx - Nancy Cunard (March 10 1896 – March 17 1965) was an English writer, editor and publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism.
- xxxx - Madame Roland
- xxxx - Slavko Vorkapich
- xxxx - Jack Arnold
- xxxx - V for Vendetta (film)
- xxxx - Scott Buchanan
- xxxx - Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield
- xxxx - Anthony Storr
- xxxx - Prince William of the Netherlands
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