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<html> <head> <title>Risk Factor: Blindness</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option 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Sheikh</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000114252/">al-Razi</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 865 AD</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-925 AD</tt></td> <td>Persian alchemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/216/000173694/">Terence Alexander</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-2009</tt></td> <td>Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000026293/">Shoko Asahara</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Leader, Aum Shinrikyo cult</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000048147/">David Blunkett</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>UK Home Secretary, 2001-04</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/729/000031636/">Andrea Bocelli</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Italian operatic tenor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000071244/">Jorge Luis Borges</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1986</tt></td> <td>The Garden of Forking Paths</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/878/000031785/">Robert Boyle</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1627</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1691</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of modern chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/971/000086713/">Louis Braille</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1809</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1852</tt></td> <td>Reading system for the blind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000159365/">Laura Dewey Bridgman</a></td> <td><center>Oddity</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1889</tt></td> <td>Blind deaf mute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/992/000087731/">Emanuel Bronner</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1997</tt></td> <td>Soap label philosopher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/272/000036164/">Gordon Brown</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>UK Prime Minister, 2007-10</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/900/000095615/">Robert Wilhelm Bunsen</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1899</tt></td> <td>Spectrum analysis, bunsen burner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000095075/">António Feliciano de Castilho</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1800</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1875</tt></td> <td>A noite de Castello</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/043/000104728/">St. Cecilia</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 180 AD</tt></td> <td>Patron saint of music, the blind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/345/000023276/">Ray Charles</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-2004</tt></td> <td>Georgia On My Mind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000202541/">Alonzo Church</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1995</tt></td> <td>Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/216/000094931/">Pope Clement XII</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1652</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1740</tt></td> <td>Roman Catholic Pope, 1730-40</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/518/000099221/">Gustaf Dalén</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1937</tt></td> <td>Automatic sun valve</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/128/000024056/">Samuel H. Day</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-2001</tt></td> <td>Antinuke crusader</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000092659/">Eamon de Valera</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1975</tt></td> <td>President of Ireland, 1959-73</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/358/000093079/">Frederick Delius</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1934</tt></td> <td>Over the Hills and Far Away</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000352731/">Vernon Dent</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td>Frequent foil to The Three Stooges</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000051418/">Dana Elcar</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-2005</tt></td> <td>Pete Thornton on MacGyver</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000095427/">Eratosthenes</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>276 BC</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>194 BC</tt></td> <td>First to measure the Earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000048810/">Leonhard Euler</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1707</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1783</tt></td> <td>The Elements of Euclid</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/176/000113834/">John Fante</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1983</tt></td> <td>Bukowski's idol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/820/000092544/">James Farmer</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1999</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, CORE</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000024613/">José Feliciano</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Feliz Navidad</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000029935/">Galileo Galilei</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1564</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1642</tt></td> <td>Copernican observational astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000125932/">Martha Gellhorn</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1998</tt></td> <td>War correspondent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/465/000176934/">Thomas P. Gore</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1949</tt></td> <td>Blind US Senator from Oklahoma</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000206867/">John Howard Griffin</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1980</tt></td> <td>Black Like Me</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/991/000113652/">Leroy Grumman</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1982</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, Grumman Aircraft</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000127321/">Gordon Gund</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former owner, Cleveland Cavaliers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/188/000349138/">Jeff Healey</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-2008</tt></td> <td>The Jeff Healey Band</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000087580/">Homer</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>fl. 8th c. BC</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>fl. 8th c. BC</tt></td> <td>Iliad and the Odyssey</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000102985/">Ralph Hopton</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1596</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Sep-1652</tt></td> <td>Royalist commander, English Civil War</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000040486/">William Holman Hunt</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1827</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1910</tt></td> <td>British Pre-Raphaelite painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000059085/">Aldous Huxley</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td>Brave New World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/881/000036773/">Derek Jarman</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1994</tt></td> <td>The Last of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000205596/">Blind Lemon Jefferson</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Dec-1929</tt></td> <td>Influential bluesman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/388/000022322/">Lady Bird Johnson</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-2007</tt></td> <td>Wife of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000046933/">Helen Keller</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1968</tt></td> <td>Deaf and blind activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000165265/">Will Keith Kellogg</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1951</tt></td> <td>Corn flakes and Rice Krispies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/275/000057104/">Jean-Baptiste Lamarck</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1744</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1829</tt></td> <td>Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000093114/">Jean Langlais</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1991</tt></td> <td>Organist and composer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/509/000118155/">Aristide Maillol</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>Sculptor of the female nude</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000113943/">Ved Mehta</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Face to Face</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000024375/">Ronnie Milsap</a></td> <td><center>Country Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>It Was Almost Like a Song</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000023429/">Alan Moore</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Created The Watchmen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/958/000031865/">Mohammed Omar</a></td> <td><center>Terrorist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Head of the Taliban</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000111274/">David A. Paterson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of New York, 2008-11</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/746/000092470/">Edith Piaf</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1963</tt></td> <td>Internationally-renowned French chanteuse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000117833/">William H. Prescott</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1796</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1859</tt></td> <td>The Conquest of Mexico</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000085935/">Joseph Pulitzer</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1911</tt></td> <td>Established the Pulitzer Prize</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/831/000121468/">Bob C. Riley</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1994</tt></td> <td>Governor of Arkansas, 1975</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/484/000094202/">Betsy Ross</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1752</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1836</tt></td> <td>Legendary American flagmaker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/114/000056943/">Jean-Paul Sartre</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1980</tt></td> <td>Nausea, No Exit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000026357/">Terri Schiavo</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-2005</tt></td> <td>Human vegetable, 1990-2005</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/535/000098241/">Diane Schuur</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The New First Lady of Jazz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000205717/">George Shearing</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-2011</tt></td> <td>George Shearing Quintet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/270/000023201/">Ted Sorensen</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-2010</tt></td> <td>Aide to JFK</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000097944/">Charles Sturt</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1795</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1869</tt></td> <td>Explorer of NSW and South Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/592/000108268/">Anne Sullivan</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td>The Miracle Worker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000196494/">Art Tatum</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1956</tt></td> <td>Greatest jazz pianist of all time</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000026617/">James Thurber</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1961</tt></td> <td>Short story writer and cartoonist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/169/000087905/">Walther von Brauchitsch</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>Nazi general, failed to capture Moscow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000087930/">Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td>Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/890/000044758/">Doc Watson</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-2012</tt></td> <td>Two Days in November</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/535/000022469/">Stevie Wonder</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Signed, Sealed, and Delivered</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/738/000027657/">Sheikh Ahmed Yassin</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-2004</tt></td> <td>Hamas spiritual leader</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=64598" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/668/000001665/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/668/1665/s1665.jpg" width=128> Corporate Power Nexus</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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