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BusinessGuus Kouwenhoven
1942 – 2026 · Businessman; hotelier; timber trader; arms dealer (convicted); luxury-car importer
“Dutch timber baron convicted over Liberia's war, who never served the sentence.”
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BusinessHiroshi Okuda
1932 – 2026 · Businessman; automotive executive; former president and chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation; first chairman of the modern Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)
“Toyota outsider who forced the Prius into the world and remade Japanese industry.”
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BusinessBenjamin M. Rosen
1933 – 2026 · Venture capitalist; technology analyst; Compaq chairman and acting CEO; electronics engineer; philanthropist; ideas-festival founder
“PC-era VC who backed Compaq and taught Wall Street to love the Apple II.”
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BusinessBruce Lunsford
1947 – 2026 · Attorney; CPA; healthcare entrepreneur; private investor; politician; thoroughbred owner-breeder; film producer; philanthropist
“Kentucky builder who raced Art Collector and nearly unseated Mitch McConnell.”
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BusinessSir Roger Jones
1943 – 2026 · Pharmacist; pharmaceutical entrepreneur; public servant; former WDA chairman; BBC national governor for Wales
“Welsh pharmacist-entrepreneur who built Penn Pharma, led the WDA, and never stopped fishing for Wales.”
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BusinessKlaus-Michael Kühne
1937 – 2026 · German billionaire businessman; honorary chairman and majority owner of Kuhne + Nagel; major shareholder of Hapag-Lloyd and Lufthansa; philanthropist (Kuhne Foundation)
“Logistics patriarch who built a global freight empire and left it to a Swiss foundation.”
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