Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German theoretical physicist. His most famous work is that of the theory of relativity, sometimes called the world’s most famous equation. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. His family moved to Italy and he eventually went to Switzerland and then moved to the US. He taught at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. At the time of his immigration, Princeton, Harvard, and Yale all had Jewish quotas and few to no Jewish professors.

Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer. He was one of the leading proponents of canals on Mars. His interest and influence in astronomy was great. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Not always correct about astronomy, it was his influence that led to the discovery of Pluto fourteen years after his death, offsetting his Martian errors.

Edward Albee – (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright. Two of his most famous plays are The Sandbox and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He won three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and two Tony Awards for Best Play. He was also awarded the America Award in Literature. His works are considered to be examinations of the modern condition and later, the psychology of maturing in that culture.

Craig Hysell (March 11, 1975) is an American entrepreneur and author. He is co-founder and CEO of The Essential Way Project, a health and wellness enterprise with an added goal of forming ethical, conscientious, and effective leaders. In that vein, he also does personal fitness and life coaching. He has co-owned several other small businesses as well and is currently working as a firefighter.

Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, and US Ambassador, the first American woman appointed to a major post abroad. Clare was intelligent, ambitious, and beautiful. She married twice, neither marriage was a complete success, and her only daughter was killed in a car accident at the age of 19. Her writing and editorial gifts propelled her to a successful career in journalism. Having succeeded in that arena, she turned to politics, and was able to reproduce that success once again.

Vyacheslav Molotov (March 9, 1890 – November 8, 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. He was an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, rising in power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin. He served as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars from 1930 to 1941 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1956. He was First Deputy Premier from 1942 to 1957 and was dismissed from from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was removed from all political offices in 1961 and drifted into obscurity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the Untied States as an Associate Justice from 1902 – 1932. He served with the Massachusetts militia and then the 20^th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the US Civil War. After the war, he returned to Boston and enrolled at Harvard. He attended one year of their Law School before leaving and then embarked on a career in the law holding his first judge position in 1882. He remained on the bench for the next fifty years.

Michael Eisner (March 7, 1942) is an American businessman. He began his career with brief employment at all three of the major TV networks in the US. He was President and CEO of Paramount Pictures from 1976 until 1984. He was Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 until September 2005. His tenure at Disney ended abruptly when a vote of no confidence from the Board of Directors induced him to announce his retirement.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He is considered by some to not only be the greatest artist of his time, but of all time. The Florentine native is the creator of some of the best known works of art in the Western world. The Pietà and David are his most famous statues. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as well as “The Last Judgment” on the altar wall still inspire visitors from around the world.

Letizia Battaglia (March 5, 1935) is an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Her work includes all aspects of Sicilian life but she is best known for her photographic work on the Mafia. She took up photojournalism after her divorce in 1971. She found it was possible to sell more articles when she had pictures to go with her text. She avows that she prefers writing to picture taking although she has always taken pictures. She has, in fact, taken more than a half million of them.