SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Helen Keller

1880 - 1968

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Keller is the 11th most popular social activist (down from 10th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from United States (down from 71st in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Social Activist.

Helen Keller is most famous for being the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. She was also a prolific author and activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Helen Keller ranks 11 out of 840. Before her are Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, and Henry Dunant. After her are Aung San Suu Kyi, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Claus von Stauffenberg, Bertha von Suttner, Rosa Parks, and Nicholas Winton.

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Among people born in 1880, Helen Keller ranks 2. Before her is George Marshall. After her are Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Fedor von Bock, John Boyd Orr, Robert Musil, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc. Among people deceased in 1968, Helen Keller ranks 3. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr., and Yuri Gagarin. After her are Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Keller ranks 84 out of 20,380. Before her are Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Warren Buffett (1930), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Patrick Swayze (1952), Charles Lindbergh (1902), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929). After her are B.B. King (1925), Brigham Young (1801), Jack London (1876), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Robin Williams (1951), and John Glenn (1921).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Helen Keller ranks 4. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Malcolm X (1925), and Eleanor Roosevelt (1884). After her are Rosa Parks (1913), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Margaret Sanger (1879), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), and Jimmy Hoffa (1913).

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