Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56.
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and inventor best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. He was a pioneer in the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, and was a key player in the development of the Macintosh computer. Jobs was also the founder of the computer animation studio Pixar, and was the CEO of NeXT, a computer company he founded after leaving Apple in 1985.