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Callan Mulvey – (an actor seen in various series as Rush and in movies like Batman Vs Superman) has lost the sight in one eye during an accident. Geraldine Lawhorn – one-woman show performer in New York City. Marilee Talkington – a low vision actress and activist with a retinal disease who starred in See, NCIS, and New Amsterdam. [19]
Worked on applications to make the Internet more accessible to colorblind people. [26] Matt Holland: red–green b. 1974 England Ireland: Association football player [27] Richard Hughes: red–green b. 1975 England: Musician, member of Keane [28] Jake Humphrey: red–green b. 1978 England: TV presenter, journalist
As of 2015, there were 940 million people with some degree of vision loss. [5] 246 million had low vision and 39 million were blind. [1] The majority of people with poor vision are in the developing world and are over the age of 50 years. [1] Rates of visual impairment have decreased since the 1990s. [1]
James Holman FRS (15 October 1786 – 29 July 1857), known as the "Blind Traveller," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels.
"Many, Many Monkeys" is a 1989 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which an epidemic of blindness is described as a judgement upon society for "turning a blind eye" to the sufferings of others. Proof is a 1991 film about a blind photographer, who distrusts other people's descriptions of the world around him.
Metcalf was born into a poor family in Knaresborough in Yorkshire, England on 15 August 1717.His father was a horse breeder. At the age of six John lost his sight after a smallpox infection; he was given fiddle lessons as a way of making provision for him to earn a living later in life. [2]
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Human eye cross-sectional view. Courtesy NIH National Eye Institute. Charles Louis Schepens (March 13, 1912 – March 28, 2006) [1] was a Belgian and American ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", [2] [3] and member of the French Resistance.