Researched and compiled by Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
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Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, [www.pbs.gov.ph] 8-9 evening class Monday to Friday
Helen Keller - (1880 - 1968) (1880-1968) American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college.
Keller
Claude
Monet (1840-1926), founder of French impressionist painting, a
movement that swept through Europe in the later part of the 19th
century. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting
Impression, Sunrise.
Horatio Nelson – (1758-1805)
British admiral
When enemy
ships would display the signal flags Horatio would bring his telescope to his
blind eye and say carry on with the attack, I see no signals.
John Milton – (1608-1674)
English poet and prose polemicist, well known through his epic poem Paradise
Lost and Paradise Regained.
Galileo Galilei -
(1564- 642) Galileo Galilei was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, mathematician,
physicist, and philosopher being greatly responsible for the scientific
revolution.
Galileo
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- (1882-1945) Franklin was the 32nd President of the United States of
America. In spite of several disabilities
including vision impairment, he was responsible in the recovery of the economy
from the Great Depression.
Stevie Wonder - (1950
- ) American singer-songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from infancy.
Alec Templeton - (1909-1963)
was a satirist and pianist who had moved from Wales to the United States where
he played with several orchestras, eventually making it to his first radio
performances on the Rudy Vallee Show, The Chase and Sanbourn Hour,The Magic Key
and Kraft Music Hall. The way he would memorize his scripts before the show was
by asking someone to read them 20 times in a row while he would listen. He was
blind from birth but it did not stop him to doing what he wanted to do in the
end.
Louis Braille - (1809-1852) Louis Braille became blind
after he accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with his father's awl. He
later became an inventor and designed braille writing, which enables blind
people to read through feeling a series of organized bumps representing letters.
This concept was beneficial to all blind people from around the world and is
commonly used even today.
Harriet Tubman - (1820-1913), a slave throughout her
youth, being treated as an animal until she eventually escaped captivity. When
she had reached Canada she did not stay to enjoy her freedom. She returned to
the lands and brought hundreds of black slaves back to safety, saving them from
slavery by escaping from what they then called The Underground Railroad. After
a severe wound to the head, which was inflicted by a slave owner before her
escape, she became victim to vision impairment and seizures. Which did not keep
her from tossing her fears aside and to keep fighting for the freedom of her
people.
James
Thurber - Comedian
and cartoonist for New Yorker Magazine. His brother William accidentally shot
him in the eye with and arrow while playing a game of William Tell making him
almost completely blind after the loss of an eye.
Jorge
Luis Borges - (1899-1986)
Argentine writer whose output includes short stories, essays, poetry, literary
criticism, and translations.
Joseph Plateau - (1801-1883) Physicist, invented the stroboscope that led to the development of cinema, blinded by gazing at the sun for 25 seconds.
Marla Runyan - (1969 - ) Marathon runner who is legally blind. She is a three-time US national champion in the women's 5,000 meters.
Thomas
Gore -
(1870-1949) Democratic politician. He became blind as a child through two
separate accidents but did not give up his dream of becoming a senator.
William
Prescott -
(1726-1795) American colonel in the Revolutionary War, became widely attributed
for the famous quote, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their
eyes," an important instruction to his soldiers in order to conserve
ammunition. The former town of Prescott, Massachusetts, and the Prescott
Peninsula today were named in his honor,
Sidney Bradford - (May 30, 1906 - August 2, 1960) went blind at 10 months of age but regained sight on both eyes after a cornea transplant at the age of 52. He was the subject of many scientific studies of perception by neuropsychologist Richard Gregory. His operation was able to reveal idiosyncrasies of the human visual system.
Arnolt Schlick - Arnolt was a German organist and composer of the Renaissance.
Esref Armagan - (born 1953) Esref is a blind painter of Turkish origin.
Frederick Delius - (January 29, 1862 � June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England.
John Stanley - (January 17, 1712 � May 19, 1786) John Stanley was an English composer and
organist. Kelvin Tan Weilian - born 5 October 1981) Kelvin Tan Weilian is a visually impaired professional singer in Singapore.
Thomas Rhodes Armitage - (1824-1890) Armitage was a British physician, founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind.
Joseph Pulitzer - (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) Joseph was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes (along with William Randolph Hearst) and for originating yellow journalism. In 1882 Pulitzer purchased the New York World, a newspaper that had been losing $40,000 a year, for $346,000 from Jay Gould. Pulitzer shifted its focus to human-interest stories, scandal, and sensationalism. At the age of 42 Joseph became blind due to retinal detachment leaving him no choice but to retire.
Pulitzer
Judy Heumann - (born 1947) is an American disability rights activist.
Leonhard Euler - (born April 15, 1707) Leonhard was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus and graph theory.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - (August 7, 1936 - December 5, 1977) Rahsaan was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, playing tenor saxophone, flute and other reed instruments.
Tilly Aston - (December 11, 1873 � 1 November 1947) better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind, with herself as secretary.
Doc Watson - (born March 3, 1923) Doc Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music.
Francesco Landini - (around 1325 � September 2, 1397) Francesco Landini was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker.
Sue Townsend - (born April 2, 1946) is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. Her writing tends to combine comedy with social commentary, though she has written purely dramatic works as well. .
Bernard Morin - (born 1931) Bernard Morin is a French mathematician, especially a topologist.
Abdurrahman Wahid - former President of Indonesia (1940- )
Al Hibbler
Audre Lorde
- Poet - Activist (1934 - 1992)
Blind Lemon Jefferson - (1893 - 1929) - Blues musician
& singer
Eamon de Valera - (1882 - 1975) - President of Ireland.
Eduard Degas - French painter
Ella Fitzgerald - (1917 - 1996) - jazz singer - went blind as a result
of diabetes in her old age.
Francisco Goya - (1746 - 1828) - painter - became blind and deaf in
late life - painted blind(ed) subjects.
Frankie Armstrong - English folk singer and voice teacher - sight degraded
in late teens onwards from glaucoma
Frida Kahlo
- Artist (1907 - 1954)
George Shearing - (1919 - ) - jazz pianist.
Gilbert Montagn
Ginny Owens
- Gospel singer - totally blind from age 2
Harilyn Rousso - Disability Rights Activist/Psychotherapist (1946-)
Henry Fawcett - UK Postmaster General - 19th Century
Homer
- Greek poet said to have been blind.
Honor Daumier - (1808 - 1879) - French caricaturist - painter - and
sculptor - blind later in life.
Isaac the Blind - (1160 - 1235) - French cabbalist (possibly blind from
birth)
Isaac
- biblical patriarch
James Joyce
- (1882 - 1941) - writer - at times blind - underwent several operations
Jessica Callahan - singer - blind from retinopathy of prematurity
Jhamak Ghimire - Nepalese Poet and Writer (1980)
Joaquin Rodrigo - composer - from an illness at age three
Johann Sebastian Bach - (1685 - 1750) - became blind in
later life.
John II of Aragon - (1397 - 1479) - able to see again after cataract
surgery (couching) by Abiathar Crescas
John Wesley Powell - Explorer - Geologist (1834 - 1902)
Jose Feliciano - (born 1945) - blind from birth due to congenital
glaucoma
Joshua Reynolds - (1723 -1792) - British painter - blind later in life.
Judi Chamberlin - Mental Patients' Liberation Activist (1944-)
King John the Blind of Bohemia - (1309 - 1346)
Mike May
- (born 1954) - regained partial vision due to stem cell research.
Ronnie Milsap
Rt Hon David Blunkett - MP - politician
Samson
- Biblical character - blinded by the Philistines
St. Paul
- Apostle (photo)
Stalebread Lacombe - Jazz musician - went blind in middle age
Surdas
- a Hindu poet - saint and musician of India
Tim Cordes
Tom Wiggins
(1849 -1908)
W.C. Handy
- (1873 -1958) - Blues composer - went blind in middle age
Wilma Mankiller - Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1945-)
Zohar Sharon - blind pro golfer
Famous people with sight problems
Summary: Famous people, some real, some imaginary, who have lost their sight.The portrayal of some blind characters in literature or the arts is very negative. Blind characters are often seen as frightening or pathetic, or as being punished for some moral lapse.
It is important to realise that sight loss is a natural phenomenon which can affect anyone, irrespective of moral behaviour or religious belief. While it may cause very real problems it does not turn ordinary people into monsters or victims.
- Thomas Rhodes Armitage - founder of RNIB
- Rt Hon David Blunkett MP - politician
- Andrea Bocelli - opera singer
- Louis Braille - inventor of braille
- Ray Charles - American singer and composer
- Cupid/Eros - Greek/Roman god of love
- Eduard Degas - French painter
- Henry Fawcett - UK Postmaster General, 19th Century
- Mikey Hughes - Big Brother 2008 contestant
- Homer - Greek poet
- Horus - Egyptian god
- Helen Keller - American author and philanthropist
- Denise Leigh - opera singer and winner of Channel 4's Operatunity
- John Milton - English poet
- Claude Monet - French painter
- Dr William Moon - inventor of Moon system of reading
- Horatio Nelson - British admiral
- Odin - Norse god
- Oedipus - mythological Greek King
- Samson - Biblical hero
- St. Paul - Apostle
- Tiresias - mythological, Greek seer
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