Saturday, March 6th
- Michelangelo, the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, engineer, and — next to Leonardo Da Vinci the quintessential Renaissance man, is born in 1475.
- Elizabeth Barret Browning, one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian Era, is born in 1806.
Sunday, March 7th
- Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter and spiritual seeker, is born in 1872.
- Joseph-Maurice Ravel, the French composer of Impressionist music is born in 1875. He is best known for his work “Bolero” (1928) which has been described as “a piece for orchestra without music.”
- John Herschel, an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, experimental photographer, and inventor, is born in 1792.
Monday, March 8th
- St. John of God, the Portuguese born friar and saint and who would become one of Spain’s leading religious figures is born in 1495.
Tuesday, March 9th
- Samuel Osborne Barber II, the Pulitzer prized composer, is born in 1910. His piece, “Adagio for Strings” is widely considered to be a masterpiece of modern classical music.
Wednesday, March 10th
- Tibetan Uprising Day is observed. It commemorates the 1959 Tibetan uprising against the People’s Republic of China. The failure of the uprising led to a violent crackdown in Tibet and the the flight of the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, into exile.