This Week’s Birthdays

March 8, 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress

March 9, 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)

March 10, 1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist

March 11, 1969 – Terrence Howard, American actor

March 12, 1478 – Giuliano di Lorenzo de’ Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)

March 13, 1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (d. 1986)

March 14, 1879 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)