Library for Deaf Action's Deaf Culture Calendar

August 25, 1880 -- First convention of the National Association of the Deaf, which met in Cincinnati, Ohio. Edmund Booth, Edwin A. Hodgson, and Robert P. McGregor were the co-founders […]

Alice Cogswell - Born August 31, 1805, in Hartford, CT; also her last home address.  Died December 30, 1830.Daughter of Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell and first pupil to enroll American School for […]

Gilbert C. Eastman - September 12, 1934, in Middletown, CT. Died December 2, 2006. Last home address site: Bethany Beach, DE.Author, playwright, professor, artist, leader, expert on Laurent Clerc, mentor, […]

Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell - Born September 28, 1761, in Canterbury, CT. Died December 17, 1830. His last home address site: Hartford, CT.First hearing father of a deaf child to […]

Ludwig van Beethoven - Born December 16(?), 1770, in Bonn, Germany. Died March 26, 1827. Last home address site: Vienna, Austria.Composed at total of nine symphonies, the 3rd - 9th […]

Laurent Clerc - Born December 26, 1785, in La Balme, France. Died July 18, 1869. Last home address site: Hartford, CT.First deaf teacher in America and a role mentor of […]

Louis Braille - Born January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France. Died January 6, 1852; last home address site: Paris.Inventor of braille in 1824 This world-wide reading system uses different formations […]

Frederick C. Schreiber - Born February 1, 1922, in Brooklyn, NY. Died September 5, 1979; Last home address site: Kensington, MD.Writer, editor, activist, and well known for his powerful and […]

Laura Redden Searing - Born February 9, 1840, in Somerset County, MD. Died August 10, 1923; Last home address site: San Mateo, CANewspaper correspondent who once interviewed President Lincoln, Civil […]

Thomas Alva Edison - Born February 11, 1847, in Milan, OH. Died October 18, 1931; Last home address site: Orange, NJ.Inventor and scientist who received 1,093 patents and who said […]

February 16, 1857 -- Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, known as Kendall School, opens. Founded by Amos Kendall Now a part of […]

Thomas Brown - Born February 25, 1804, in Henniker, NH; also his last home address site. Died March 23, 1886. First deaf American grassroots leader and a NAD seed planter […]