9. Steve Jobs
The visionary Apple CEO stepped down from his job in June 2011, after an eight-year battle against a rare form of pancreatic cancer had taken a turn towards inevitability. He was pictured for the last time in public on August 28th of the same year, his frame gaunt and wasted by the disease. Jobs remained determined to work until he was no longer capable of reaching the high standards he had set for himself and even when facing death, insisted on doing as much for himself as possible. Six weeks after the photo was taken, he succumbed to respiratory failure, having changed the way we consume music and media forever. Fittingly for a man obsessed with the beauty of possibility, his last words were a simple ode to wonder: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow”.
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