On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, here are seven famous personalities ... to millions. Deaf and blind from an illness at 19 months, Helen Keller's future seemed bleak.

She used it to assist those with disabilities ... how deaf-blind writer Helen Keller was defined by what she could do. In the early part of the 20th century she was one of the most famous women ...

“It’s unnerving so many young people ... Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan spent the majority of their lives together, standing up for those with disabilities–particularly the blind and the deaf.

PRINCETON, N.J., April 20 -- Samuel L. Clemens and Miss Helen Keller, the deaf and blind girl, who is at present writing her own biography, were the guests of Laurence Hutton at Peep o' Day ...

Helen Keller ... Blind and deaf after a sudden illness at the age of 19 months, she later became, with the help of her childhood teacher and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person ...

Helen Keller is a worldwide ... If you remember learning about Keller in grade school, you may remember that she was both blind and deaf, and despite this, she graduated college, published 12 ...