1880 - 1968
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Keller has received more than 24,274,397 page views. Her biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 102 in 2019). Helen Keller is the 11th most popular social activist, the 67th most popular biography from United States (up from 72nd 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, Helen Keller ranks 11 out of 538. Before her are Jan Hus, Rosa Luxemburg, Mother Teresa, Henry Dunant, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr.. After her are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Jean-Paul Marat, Aung San Suu Kyi, Claus von Stauffenberg, Guy Fawkes, and Robert Owen.
1369 - 1415
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 6
1910 - 1997
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 7
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 8
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 9
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 10
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 11
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
1743 - 1793
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 13
1945 - Present
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 14
1907 - 1944
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 15
1570 - 1606
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 16
1771 - 1858
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1880, Helen Keller ranks 1. After her are Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fedor von Bock, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Robert Musil, George Marshall, Ludwig Beck, and Franz Marc. Among people deceased in 1968, Helen Keller ranks 3. Before her are Yuri Gagarin and Martin Luther King Jr.. After her are Marcel Duchamp, Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Robert F. Kennedy, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Lev Landau, and Trygve Lie.
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 1
1880 - 1930
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 2
1880 - 1964
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 3
1880 - 1918
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 4
1880 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 5
1880 - 1962
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 6
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 7
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 8
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 9
1880 - 1959
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 10
1880 - 1944
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 11
1880 - 1916
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 12
1934 - 1968
HPI: 85.94
Rank: 1
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 2
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 3
1887 - 1968
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 4
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 5
1887 - 1968
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 6
1902 - 1968
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 7
1879 - 1968
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 8
1925 - 1968
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 9
1896 - 1968
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 10
1908 - 1968
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 11
1896 - 1968
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Helen Keller ranks 67 out of 18,182. Before her are Robert Frost (1874), Donald Trump (1946), Toni Morrison (1931), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Al Gore (1948), and Morgan Freeman (1937). After her are Stephen King (1947), John D. Rockefeller (1839), Danny DeVito (1944), Noam Chomsky (1928), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), and Patrick Swayze (1952).
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 61
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 62
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 63
1902 - 1974
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 64
1948 - Present
HPI: 77.92
Rank: 65
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 66
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 67
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 68
1839 - 1937
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 69
1944 - Present
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 70
1928 - Present
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 71
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 72
1952 - 2009
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 73
Among social activists born in United States, Helen Keller ranks 4. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), and Martin Luther King Jr. (1929). After her are Rosa Parks (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jane Addams (1860), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and Susan B. Anthony (1820).
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 2
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 4
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 5
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 6
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 8
1860 - 1935
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 9
1913 - 1975
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 11
1820 - 1906
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 12