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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 1945 Jose Feliciano, born in Lares, Puerto Rico, singer, blind due to congenital glaucoma, guitarist, composer, wrote international hits 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 1911 Sonny Terry, born in North Carolina, blind blues musician, played harmonica, collaborated with Woodie Guthrie, Moses Asch, played with Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and His Night, cast in Finian's Rainbow 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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