Search: helen keller
Why: Made a "
too soon" joke about Billy Mays.
Answer: 87. She suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and then died in June 1968, 26 days before her 88th birthday.
Source:
WikipediaThe More You Know: She was born in 1880 on estate called
Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, AL. She was not born blind and deaf. When she was 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain" - possibly
scarlet fever or
meningitis - that left her blind and deaf.
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