On March 9 , 1454 , Amerigo Vespucci was born .
Amerigo Vespucci ( March 9 , 1464 - February 22 , 1512 ) was an Italian explorer , financier , navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia 's eastern outskirts as initially conjured from Columbus ' voyages , but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Old Worlders .
Amerigo Vespucci