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From Jamie Berke, Former About.com Guide since 1997

People in Deaf History

Want to know about people in deaf history? Over sixteen days, every day a deaf or significant hearing person, is spotlighted: Abbe de L'Epee, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Foster, Dummy Hoy, Erastus Smith, Heather Whitestone McCallum, Helen Keller, James "Deaf" Burke, Juliette Low, Julius Wiggins, Laura Bridgman and Julia Brace, Laurent Clerc, Richard Cornett, Samuel Heinicke, Thomas Edison, and Thomas Gallaudet.

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