This Week’s Birthdays – Week of March 9

March 9, 1934 – Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human in outer space.

March 10, 1928 – Sara Montiel, a Spanish singer, and actress.

March 11, 1903 – Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (d. 1992)

March 12, 1946 – Liza May Minnelli, an American actress and singer.

March 13, 1960 – Adam Charles Clayton, a musician, best known as the bassist of the Irish rock band U2.

March 14, 1794 – Józef Zachariasz Bem , a Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary.

March 15, 1879 – Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity