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3 lives remembered
Business1927 – 2026 · Chicago, Illinois
George E. Johnson Sr. turned a barber's burning-scalp problem into Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen and built Johnson Products Company into the first Black-owned business to trade on the American Stock Exchange. He died July 6, 2026, at the age of 99.
Business1926 – 2026 · Washington, D.C.
Alan Greenspan was the Federal Reserve chairman known as “the Maestro,” who steered the U.S. economy for more than 18 years under four presidents, from the 1987 crash to the long boom of the 1990s, and stayed candid to the end about his mistakes.
Business1956 – 2026 · Carentoir, Morbihan, Brittany, France
Claude Guillemot, the Ubisoft co-founder and operational force behind the company’s rise, died in a plane crash on June 19, 2026, at 69.
