William Hewlett

Age: 87

Summary: electronics entrepreneur who with David Packard scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics company in Palo Alto, California, whose company Hewlett Packard flourished and became the country's second-largest computer maker, who was credited with establishing Silicon Valley.

Cause of Death: Heart failure

Born: May 20, 1913

Died: January 12, 2001

Location: Portola Valley, California