| January
| | 1917.01.06 | Harvey Silver | born
| | 1917.01.09 | Benny Strickler | born
| | 1917.01.09 | Jimmy Maxwell | born
| | 1917.01.14 | Billy Butterfield | born
| | 1917.01.16 | Sandy Block | born
| | 1917.01.19 | Shep Shepherd | born
| | 1917.01.19 | Streamline Ewing | born
| | 1917.01.21 | Billy Maxted | born
| | 1917.01.22 | Pud Brown | born
| | 1917.01.23 | Fred Beckett | born
| | 1917.01.24 | Avery Parrish | born
| | 1917.01.25 | Floyd Smith | born
| | 1917.01.28 | Mert Oliver | born
| | February
| | 1917.02.17 | Ade Monsborough | born
| | 1917.02.21 | Tadd Dameron | born
| | March
| | 1917.03.01 | Aime Barelli | born
| | 1917.03.01 | Ralph Gleason | born
| | 1917.03.07 | Lee Young | born
| | 1917.03.16 | Junior Raglin | born
| | 1917.03.17 | Nat King Cole | born
| | 1917.03.19 | Buster Harding | born
| | 1917.03.19 | Curly Russell | born
| | 1917.03.23 | Johnny Guarnieri | born
| | 1917.03.23 | Sticks McGhee | born
| | 1917.03.26 | Rufus Thomas | born
| | 1917.03.28 | Randy Brooks | born
| | April
| | 1917.04.03 | Bill Finegan | born
| | 1917.04.06 | Big Walter Horton | born
| | 1917.04.10 | Morty Corb | born
| | 1917.04.12 | Helen Forrest | born
| | 1917.04.21 | Joe Dixon | born
| | 1917.04.27 | Denzil De Costa Best | born
| | 1917.04.30 | Frankie Lee Sims | born
| | May
| | 1917.05.22 | Charlie Munro | born
| | 1917.05.25 | Jimmy Hamilton | born
| | 1917.05.28 | Papa John Creach | born
| | June
| | 1917.06.13 | Simon Zentner | born
| | 1917.06.17 | Nick Buono | born
| | 1917.06.19 | Dave Lambert | born
| | 1917.06.22 | Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson | born
| | 1917.06.30 | Lena Horne | born
| | July
| | 1917.07.14 | Sammy Stokes | born
| | 1917.07.18 | Joe Comfort | born
| | 1917.07.21 | Floyd Jones | born
| | 1917.07.22 | Lou McGarity | born
| | 1917.07.27 | Moses Rascoe | born
| | August
| | 1917.08.03 | Charlie Shavers | born
| | 1917.08.07 | Mose Vinson | born
| | 1917.08.16 | Emil Ludvik | born
| | September
| | 1917.09.01 | Velma Middleton | born
| | 1917.09.02 | Armando Trovajoli | born
| | 1917.09.02 | Laurindo Almeida | born
| | 1917.09.06 | John Letman | born
| | 1917.09.09 | George Maycock | born
| | 1917.09.24 | Jimmy Butts | born
| | 1917.09.26 | Nelson 'Cadillac' Williams | born
| | 1917.09.30 | Buddy Rich | born
| | October
| | 1917.10.08 | Charles James Heard | born
| | 1917.10.08 | George Webb | born
| | 1917.10.08 | J.C. Heard | born
| | 1917.10.10 | Thelonious Monk | born
| | 1917.10.11 | John Adriano Acea | born
| | 1917.10.15 | Paul Tanner | born
| | 1917.10.21 | Dizzy Gillespie | born
| | 1917.10.27 | Carl 'Bama' Warwick | born
| | November
| | 1917.11.05 | George Fierstone | born
| | 1917.11.07 | Howard Rumsey | born
| | 1917.11.11 | Sonny White | born
| | 1917.11.18 | Boots Mussulli | born
| | 1917.11.27 | Nesuhi Ertegun | born
| | 1917.11.29 | Nat Gershman | born
| | December
| | 1917.12.02 | Sylvia Syms | born
| | 1917.12.04 | Pixie Roberts | born
| | 1917.12.04 | Russell Jacquet | born
| | 1917.12.07 | Billy Moore | born
| | 1917.12.14 | Martha Davis | born
| | 1917.12.18 | Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson | born
| | 1917.12.23 | Eddie Finckel | born
| | 1917.12.26 | Butch Ballard | born
| | 1917.12.27 | Dardanelle | born
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