Full Name=Helen Adams Keller; Profession=American author, political activist, lecturer, humanitarian, educator and disability-rights advocate who became internationally famous as a deaf-blind pioneer; Nationality=American; Born=27 June 1880; Birthplace=Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States; Generation=Lost Generation (cohort of people born roughly 1880–1900 commonly referred to as the “Lost Generation” in historical and sociological sources); Chinese Zodiac=Dragon (according to Chinese Lunar Year tables, the year 1880 falls in the Dragon column); Zodiac Sign=Cancer (Western zodiac sign for a birth on June 27); Age in 2026 = 146 (Keller would have been 146 years old in 2026 based on her birth in 1880); Marital Status=Never married (she entered a romantic relationship with journalist Peter Fagan and the couple even applied for a marriage license, but her family opposed the union and she ultimately never married); Children=None (historical biographies and family accounts consistently note that Helen Keller never married and never had children); Description=Helen Adams Keller (1880–1968) was born healthy but became deafblind at around 19 months of age after an acute febrile illness described by contemporary doctors as “brain fever,” later analyzed by medical historians as most likely bacterial meningitis such as Neisseria meningitidis or Haemophilus influenzae; through the devoted teaching of Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who arrived at her home in 1887, Keller learned to communicate using manual signs spelled into her hand, Braille, tactile lip-reading and eventually spoken language, turning what many thought an “unteachable” child into a highly educated and articulate woman; she passed the entrance exams for Radcliffe College, graduated cum laude in 1904 as the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree, and went on to write numerous books, essays and memoirs about her life, disability, politics and philosophy, becoming one of the best-known writers and lecturers of the early twentieth century; over her long career she traveled to more than two dozen countries, met multiple U.S. presidents, and used her celebrity and personal story to campaign tirelessly for the rights and education of blind and deafblind people, for women’s suffrage, for workers’ rights, against child labor, and for broader social justice, co‑founding the American Civil Liberties Union and helping to reshape public attitudes toward disability and human dignity; she remains a global symbol of perseverance, resilience, compassion, and spiritual courage, inspiring generations with the message that limitations of the body need not confine the mind or the soul; Cause of Death= Died peacefully in her sleep on 1 June 1968 at Arcan Ridge, her home in Easton, Connecticut (often described in contemporary reports simply as death in her sleep), at the age of 87, with no specific underlying disease publicly emphasized beyond the natural frailty of advanced age.