3. Aaron Swartz – Age 26
Internet “hactivist”, computer programmer, and entrepreneur Aaron Swartz committed suicide back in 2013 after being charged with wire and computer fraud and potentially facing 50 years in jail. Swartz hanged himself in his NYC apartment.
Basically, Aaron broke into the computer network at MIT and had it set to download academic journals illegally. But you may know him better as one of the brains behind Reddit.
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