Lennard J. Davis

Lennard J. Davis

male
Lennard J. Davis, a nationally known American specialist in disability studies, is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago,...
Dummy Hoy

Dummy Hoy

male, deceased (1961)
William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for several teams from 1888 to 1902, most notably...

Mary-Claire King

female, 63 years old
Mary-Claire King (1946-) is an American human geneticist. She is professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the genetics and...
Douglas Tilden

Douglas Tilden

male, deceased (1935)
Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1861 to August 5, 1935) was a world-famous deaf sculptor who went to the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley,...
Juan Pablo Bonet

Juan Pablo Bonet

male
Juan Pablo Bonet was a Spanish priest and pioneer of education for the deaf. He published the first book on deaf education in 1620 in Madrid.<br&gt;...
Wang Wei

Wang Wei

male, deceased (761)
Wang Wei, sometimes titled the "Poet Buddha", was a Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman. From a high family, he passed the...

Charles Usher

male, deceased (1942)
Charles Howard Usher (March 2, 1865 - March 3, 1942) was a Scottish ophthalmologist from Edinburgh. He studied medicine at St. Thomas Hospital in...
William Boyce

William Boyce

male, deceased (1779)
William Boyce (September 11, 1711 - February 7, 1779) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century....
Henry H. Goddard

Henry H. Goddard

male, deceased (1957)
Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14 1866 - June 18 1957) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. He is known...
Johann Mattheson

Johann Mattheson

male, deceased (1764)
Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 - April 17, 1764) was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist. Mattheson was...