2012 Event After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy 1995 Death Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28 1995 Death Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87 1995 Event Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital 1995 Death William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72 1991 Event Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins) 1990 Death Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44 1978 Event Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man 1974 Birthday Brandon Call, actor, Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step 1970 Death Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27 1969 Death Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49 1969 Death Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79 1969 Event Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert in Hyde Park, London 1968 Death Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 1966 Death Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81 1966 Birthday Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist, See the Light 1966 Birthday Tea Leoni, New York City, actress, Flying Blind, Naked Truth 1963 Birthday David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer, Sundays, Blind 1961 Birthday Danny Blind, Dutch soccer star, Sparta/Ajax 1958 Death Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 1958 Death Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 1954 Birthday Terri Gibbs, born in Augusta, Georgia, blind singer, Somebody's Knockin' 1954 Birthday Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Surfacing, Blind Date 1952 Birthday Graham Salmon, blind runner, fastest 100m by a blind man 1950 Birthday Mark Blum, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio 1947 Birthday Tom Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, blind actor, If You Could See What I Hear 1945 Birthday Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist, Blind Faith, Traffic 1945 Birthday Jose Feliciano, born in Lares, Puerto Rico, singer, blind due to congenital glaucoma, guitarist, composer, wrote international hits 1943 Birthday Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist and vocalist, Canned Heat 1939 Birthday John Fahey, singer, Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death 1933 Birthday Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Blind Date, Braker 1928 Event Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind 1926 Birthday Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union 1924 Birthday Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer 1920 Birthday George Shearing, London, blind pianist/composer, Lullabye of Byrdland 1917 Event M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer 1911 Birthday 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 Birthday Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist and writer, History of Sascha 1897 Birthday Blind Lemon Jefferson, rocker 1890 Birthday Claire Whitney, New York, silent film actress, Blind Fools, Haunted Mine 1884 Birthday Thomas Chalmers, New York City, actor, Blind Alleys, Outrage 1877 Birthday Gibson Gowland, England, actor, Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera 1849 Birthday "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer 1841 Event John Hampton patents venetian blind 1839 Birthday William Bell Wait, U.S., educated the blind 1831 Death Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74 1829 Event New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston 1809 Birthday Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind 1740 Death Clement XII, Lorenzo Corsini, blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87 1657 Death Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69 1609 Event Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London 1473 Death Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies 1296 Birthday John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg 928 Death Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48 3 Birthday Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer, Blind Person Owl
