John Stanley, composer, became partially blind as the result of a domestic accident at age 2
James Thurber - lost an eye as a child when his brother shot him with an arrow and as an adult lost the sight in the other eye.
Sue Townsend - registered blind in mid 2001 due to a diabetic condition she has suffered from for 20 years.
Stevie Wonder - blindness from retrolental fibroplasia caused by high oxygen concentrations in the incubator in which he was placed because of his premature birth.