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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Criminal
3-May-1938   The Blind Sheikh
al-Razi
Doctor
c. 865 AD 27-Oct-925 AD Persian alchemist
Terence Alexander
Actor
11-Mar-1923 28-May-2009 Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac
Shoko Asahara
Religion
2-Mar-1955   Leader, Aum Shinrikyo cult
David Blunkett
Politician
6-Jun-1947   UK Home Secretary, 2001-04
Andrea Bocelli
Singer
22-Sep-1958   Italian operatic tenor
Jorge Luis Borges
Author
24-Aug-1899 14-Jun-1986 The Garden of Forking Paths
Robert Boyle
Chemist
25-Jan-1627 30-Dec-1691 Pioneer of modern chemistry
Louis Braille
Inventor
4-Jan-1809 6-Jan-1852 Reading system for the blind
Laura Dewey Bridgman
Oddity
21-Dec-1829 24-May-1889 Blind deaf mute
Emanuel Bronner
Business
1-Feb-1908 7-Mar-1997 Soap label philosopher
Gordon Brown
Politician
20-Feb-1951   UK Prime Minister, 2007-10
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Chemist
31-Mar-1811 16-Aug-1899 Spectrum analysis, bunsen burner
António Feliciano de Castilho
Poet
18-Jan-1800 18-Jun-1875 A noite de Castello
St. Cecilia
Religion
? c. 180 AD Patron saint of music, the blind
Ray Charles
Musician
23-Sep-1930 10-Jun-2004 Georgia On My Mind
Alonzo Church
Mathematician
14-Jun-1903 11-Aug-1995 Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis
Pope Clement XII
Religion
7-Apr-1652 6-Feb-1740 Roman Catholic Pope, 1730-40
Gustaf Dalén
Inventor
30-Nov-1869 9-Dec-1937 Automatic sun valve
Samuel H. Day
Activist
5-Oct-1926 26-Jan-2001 Antinuke crusader
Eamon de Valera
Head of State
14-Oct-1882 29-Aug-1975 President of Ireland, 1959-73
Frederick Delius
Composer
29-Jan-1862 10-Jun-1934 Over the Hills and Far Away
Vernon Dent
Actor
16-Feb-1895 5-Nov-1963 Frequent foil to The Three Stooges
Dana Elcar
Actor
10-Oct-1927 6-Jun-2005 Pete Thornton on MacGyver
Eratosthenes
Mathematician
276 BC 194 BC First to measure the Earth
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
15-Apr-1707 18-Sep-1783 The Elements of Euclid
John Fante
Author
8-Apr-1909 8-May-1983 Bukowski's idol
James Farmer
Activist
12-Jan-1920 9-Jul-1999 Co-Founder, CORE
José Feliciano
Singer
10-Sep-1945   Feliz Navidad
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer
15-Feb-1564 8-Jan-1642 Copernican observational astronomer
Martha Gellhorn
Journalist
8-Nov-1908 15-Feb-1998 War correspondent
Thomas P. Gore
Politician
10-Dec-1870 16-Mar-1949 Blind US Senator from Oklahoma
John Howard Griffin
Author
16-Jul-1920 9-Sep-1980 Black Like Me
Leroy Grumman
Business
4-Jan-1895 4-Oct-1982 Co-Founder, Grumman Aircraft
Gordon Gund
Business
15-Oct-1939   Former owner, Cleveland Cavaliers
Jeff Healey
Guitarist
25-Mar-1966 2-Mar-2008 The Jeff Healey Band
Homer
Poet
fl. 8th c. BC fl. 8th c. BC Iliad and the Odyssey
Ralph Hopton
Military
1596 Sep-1652 Royalist commander, English Civil War
William Holman Hunt
Painter
2-Apr-1827 7-Sep-1910 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Aldous Huxley
Author
26-Jul-1894 22-Nov-1963 Brave New World
Derek Jarman
Film Director
31-Jan-1942 19-Feb-1994 The Last of England
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Singer
24-Sep-1893 Dec-1929 Influential bluesman
Lady Bird Johnson
First Lady
22-Dec-1912 11-Jul-2007 Wife of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Helen Keller
Activist
27-Jun-1880 1-Jun-1968 Deaf and blind activist
Will Keith Kellogg
Business
7-Apr-1860 6-Oct-1951 Corn flakes and Rice Krispies
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Biologist
1-Aug-1744 18-Dec-1829 Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist
Jean Langlais
Composer
15-Feb-1907 8-May-1991 Organist and composer
Aristide Maillol
Sculptor
8-Apr-1861 27-Sep-1944 Sculptor of the female nude
Ved Mehta
Author
21-Mar-1934   Face to Face
Ronnie Milsap
Country Musician
16-Jan-1943   It Was Almost Like a Song
Alan Moore
Author
18-Nov-1953   Created The Watchmen
Mohammed Omar
Terrorist
1959   Head of the Taliban
David A. Paterson
Politician
20-May-1954   Governor of New York, 2008-11
Edith Piaf
Singer
19-Dec-1915 11-Oct-1963 Internationally-renowned French chanteuse
William H. Prescott
Historian
4-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 The Conquest of Mexico
Joseph Pulitzer
Business
10-Apr-1847 29-Oct-1911 Established the Pulitzer Prize
Bob C. Riley
Politician
18-Sep-1924 16-Feb-1994 Governor of Arkansas, 1975
Betsy Ross
Business
1-Jan-1752 30-Jan-1836 Legendary American flagmaker
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
21-Jun-1905 15-Apr-1980 Nausea, No Exit
Terri Schiavo
Victim
3-Dec-1963 31-Mar-2005 Human vegetable, 1990-2005
Diane Schuur
Musician
1953   The New First Lady of Jazz
George Shearing
Jazz Musician
13-Aug-1919 14-Feb-2011 George Shearing Quintet
Ted Sorensen
Attorney
8-May-1928 31-Oct-2010 Aide to JFK
Charles Sturt
Explorer
28-Apr-1795 16-Jun-1869 Explorer of NSW and South Australia
Anne Sullivan
Educator
14-Apr-1866 20-Oct-1936 The Miracle Worker
Art Tatum
Jazz Musician
13-Oct-1909 5-Nov-1956 Greatest jazz pianist of all time
James Thurber
Author
8-Dec-1894 2-Nov-1961 Short story writer and cartoonist
Walther von Brauchitsch
Military
4-Oct-1881 18-Oct-1948 Nazi general, failed to capture Moscow
Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel
Military
2-Jan-1886 30-Aug-1944 Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler
Doc Watson
Guitarist
2-Mar-1923 29-May-2012 Two Days in November
Stevie Wonder
Singer/Songwriter
13-May-1950   Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
Religion
18-Dec-1936 21-Mar-2004 Hamas spiritual leader



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