May 20th, 2020
William R. Hewlett was an engineer and co-founder of computer company Hewlett-Packard. William R. Hewlett graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936 and with his friend David Packard formed Hewlett-Packard in 1939 in Palo Alto, California, first producing resistance-capacitance audio oscillators in a garage. He was actively involved in the company until 1987 and died in 2001.
Source: www.biography.com/people/william-r-hewlett-9542040