American blind people

The list American blind people includes Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Helen Keller, Ronnie Milsap and Ella Fitzgerald. The list consists of 409 members and 2 sublists.

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Ray Charles

American, Musician

Overview: Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1930

Date of death: 10 June 2004

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Blind jazz musicians 18T

DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame members 181T

20th-century American organists 146T
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Stevie Wonder

American musician (born 1950)

Overview: Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter and musician, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range ...

Date of birth: 13 May 1950

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Tomeekah Robyn Bracy (Married)

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African-American male singer-songwriters 276T

Singer-songwriters from Michigan 179T

20th-century African-American male singers 934T
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Helen Keller

American author and activist

Overview: Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after ...

Date of birth: 27 June 1880

Date of death: 1 June 1968

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century memoirists 804T

American women memoirists 620T

Connecticut socialists 3T
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Ronnie Milsap

American musician

Overview: Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. He became one of ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: American

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Male

Partner: Joyce Reeves (Married)

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T

20th-century American keyboardists 311T
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Ella Fitzgerald

American jazz singer

Overview: Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone ...

Date of birth: 25 April 1917

Date of death: 15 June 1996

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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People from St. Albans, Queens 31T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T

Jazz musicians from Virginia 69T
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Bill Cosby

American, Comedian

Overview: William Henry Cosby Jr. (KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American retired comedian, actor, and media personality. He performed over a period of decades in film, television, and stand-up comedy, with ...

Date of birth: 12 July 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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American showrunners 404T

American male sitcom actors 604T

Comedians from Philadelphia 75T
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José Feliciano

Puerto Rican musician

Overview: José Monserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945), better known simply as José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer, best known for many international hits, including his ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

People from East Harlem 156T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
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Tom Lister Jr.

American, Actor

Overview: Tommy Debo "Tiny" Lister Jr. (born Thomas Duane Lister Jr.; June 24, 1958 – December 10, 2020) was an American character actor and occasional professional wrestler known for his roles as the neighborhood ...

Date of birth: 24 June 1958

Date of death: 10 December 2020

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 5" (196 cm)

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20th-century male professional wrestlers 825T

20th-century evangelicals 609T

21st-century evangelicals 617T
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Clarence Carter

American singer-songwriter

Overview: Clarence George Carter (born January 14, 1936) is an American blues and soul singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. His most successful songs include "Slip Away", "Back Door Santa" (both r ...

Date of birth: 14 January 1936

Age: 89

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Montgomery, Alabama 39T

African-American singer-songwriters 450T

African-American songwriters 578T
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Joe Frazier

American boxer

Overview: Joseph William Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011), nicknamed "Smokin' Joe," was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. Frazier was known for his strength, dura ...

Date of birth: 12 January 1944

Date of death: 7 November 2011

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Boxing

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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20th-century African-American sportspeople 4,328T

Boxers from Philadelphia 84T

Burials at Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) 25T
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Kealia Ohai

American soccer player

Overview: Kealia Ohai Watt ( kay-ə-LEE-ə; born January 31, 1992), née Kealia Mae Ohai, is an American soccer player who plays for the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) since 2020. She ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1992

Age: 33

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: J.J. Watt (Married)

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Houston Dash draft picks 19T

United States women's under-20 international soccer players 128T

Women's association football forwards 2,286T
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Juanita Hall

American musical theatre and film actress; singer

Overview: Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers ...

Date of birth: 6 November 1901

Date of death: 28 February 1968

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

People from Bay Shore, New York 67T

People from East Islip, New York 18T
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Dana Elcar

American actor

Overview: Ibsen Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as well as on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1927

Date of death: 6 June 2005

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Blind actors 6T

People from Ferndale, Michigan 20T

People from Santa Paula, California 23T
14.

Anne Sullivan

Teacher and companion of Helen Keller

Overview: Anne Sullivan Macy (born Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.

Date of birth: 14 April 1866

Date of death: 20 October 1936

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Teacher

Gender: Female

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Deaths from coronary thrombosis 37T

Educators from New York City 297T

People from Agawam, Massachusetts 19T
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Lady Bird Johnson

First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969

Overview: Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was an American socialite and the First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 36th President of the United States ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1912

Date of death: 11 July 2007

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: First Lady

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Women television executives 107T

Moody College of Communication alumni 134T

21st-century American women 7,616T
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Lizzie Velasquez

American motivational speaker, activist, author, and YouTuber (born 1989)

Overview: Elizabeth Anne Velásquez (born March 13, 1989) is an American motivational speaker, activist, author, and YouTuber. She was born with an extremely rare congenital disease called Marfanoid–progeroid–li ...

Date of birth: 13 March 1989

Age: 36

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Women human rights activists 633T

Catholics from Texas 177T

American women non-fiction writers 2,571T
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Mary Ingalls

American, Actress

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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People from De Smet, South Dakota 13T

People from Pepin, Wisconsin 6T

Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees 110T
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Moondog

American composer

Overview: Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), also known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from the ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1916

Date of death: 8 September 1999

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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American male jazz composers 567T

20th-century American male musicians 6,881T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T
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Amanda Swafford

American, Model

Date of birth: 30 October 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Plano East Senior High School alumni 14T

People from Hendersonville, North Carolina 27T

America's Next Top Model contestants 72T
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Art Tatum

American jazz pianist

Overview: Arthur Tatum Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest in his field.

Date of birth: 13 October 1909

Date of death: 5 November 1956

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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20th-century African-American musicians 770T

American male jazz musicians 3,235T

20th-century American male musicians 7,842T