James Fuller

Age: 50

Summary: American automotive executive and vice president in charge of Volkswagen United States, Inc. who had been the painstaking architect of the European automaker's effort to reassert itself in the lucrative U.S. car market since taking over the Volkswagen side of U.S. operations in 1985, whose strategy was to move Volkswagen upscale and establish it as a maker of cars that carry moderate price tags but have many of the performance, handling and luxury characteristics of other German cars, whose Volkswagen's displays at the Detroit and Los Angeles auto shows still will tout the 1990 Corrado, Volkswagen's first true sports car and the first of a series of new cars.

Cause of Death: Killed in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103

Born: September 17, 1938

Died: December 21, 1988

Location: Lockerbie, Scotland