1995 Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
1995 Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87
1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1995 William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72
1991 Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1990 Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1978 Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1974 Brandon Call, actor, Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step
1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1970 Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27
1969 Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1969 Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79
1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1966 Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1966 Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist, See the Light
1966 Tea Leoni, New York City, actress, Flying Blind, Naked Truth
1963 David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer, Sundays, Blind
1961 Danny Blind, Dutch soccer star, Sparta/Ajax
1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1954 Terri Gibbs, born in Augusta, Georgia, blind singer, Somebody's Knockin'
1954 Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Surfacing, Blind Date
1952 Graham Salmon, blind runner, fastest 100m by a blind man
1950 Mark Blum, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio
1947 Tom Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, blind actor, If You Could See What I Hear
1945 Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist, Blind Faith, Traffic
1943 Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist and vocalist, Canned Heat
1939 John Fahey, singer, Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
1933 Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Blind Date, Braker
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1926 Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union
1924 Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer
1920 George Shearing, London, blind pianist/composer, Lullabye of Byrdland
1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1898 Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist and writer, History of Sascha
1897 Blind Lemon Jefferson, rocker
1890 Claire Whitney, New York, silent film actress, Blind Fools, Haunted Mine
1884 Thomas Chalmers, New York City, actor, Blind Alleys, Outrage
1877 Gibson Gowland, England, actor, Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera
1849 "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
1841 John Hampton patents venetian blind
1839 William Bell Wait, U.S., educated the blind
1831 Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74
1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston
1809 Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind
1740 Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87
1657 Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69
1609 Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
1473 Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1296 John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
928 Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48
3 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer, Blind Person Owl
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