List of blind people
Blind from birth
People who became blind later in life
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977) was a blind jazz saxophonist, perhaps best known for his ability to play more than one saxophone at once.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750 ), became blind in later life.
Jorge Luis Borges , became blind in old age from a hereditary condition
Louis Braille , (1809-1852), became blind after an accident caused an eye infection at the age of 3.
Andrea Bocelli - barely sighted at birth became completely blind at 12.
Ray Charles , (1930-2004), blind from glaucoma since age 7.
Frederick Delius , (1862-1934), became blind later in life after contracting syphilis
W.C. Handy , (1873-1958), Blues composer, went blind in middle age
Helen Keller , (1880-1968), blindness resulted from fever at age 19 months
Esmond Knight - British actor
Stalebread Lacombe - Jazz musician, went blind in middle age
Fritz Lang , (1890-1976), nearly blind at the end of his life
Mike May , (born 1954), regained partial vision due to stem cell research .
John Milton , (1608-1674), became blind at the age of 42 (I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night ).
Claude Monet , (1840-1926), lost sight through cataracts in later life.
William Prescott , historian, from childhood blind in one eye, severe visual impairment in other eye
Joaquin Rodrigo , composer - from an illness at age three
John Stanley , composer, became partially blind as the result of a domestic accident at age 2
James Thurber - lost an eye as a child when his brother shot him with an arrow and as an adult lost the sight in the other eye.
Sue Townsend - registered blind in mid 2001 due to a diabetic condition she has suffered from for 20 years.
Doc Watson - folk guitarist, blinded by a childhood eye infection at the age of one.
Stevie Wonder - blindness from retrolental fibroplasia caused by high oxygen concentrations in the incubator in which he was placed because of his premature birth.
People blind in one eye
Tex Avery , (1908-1980), blind in his left eye
Elizabeth Blackwell
Bohemund IV of Antioch , the One-Eyed
Gordon Brown - lost an eye as a boy during a game of rugby.
Bushwick Bill - American rapper, member of the Geto Boys , lost an eye during an argument with a girlfriend
Dale Chihuly
Ry Cooder - blind in one eye
Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-1990), lost his left eye in an car accident in 1954
Moshe Dayan
Ben Dreyfuss
Sandy Duncan - lost vision in one eye following surgery.
Peter Falk (born 1927), lost his right eye at age three as a result of a tumor.
Nick Griffin
Hannibal
Rex Harrison (1908-1990), blind in one eye as the result of a childhood illness.
Eric Hosking
Samuel Johnson
Jim McMahon (born 1959) - legally blind in one eye due to a pencil accident as a child
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), lost an eye in battle and later took advantage of his disability.
Kirby Puckett (born 1961) - Baseball Hall of Famer ; baseball career ended when he lost the sight in his right eye due to glaucoma
Claude Rains - blind in one eye
Richard Shaw
Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger) - blinded in left eye as a child, vision impaired in right eye by infection
Art Tatum
James Grover Thurber
Dick Vitale (born 1939) - basketball sportscaster; blind in one eye from a childhood accident
Rich Williams
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