Howard Hughes
1905–1976 (age 71)
Businessman/Aviator
Biography
Howard Hughes was known worldwide as an inventor, industrialist, and aviator whose restless imagination reshaped aviation and motion pictures between the 1920s and the 1970s. He built aircraft, produced daring films, and pushed aircraft design with record setting flights that captured the public's attention while redefining the boundaries of technology.
Later in life he became a benefactor of medical research and a figure of mystery, yet friends recall how he still championed innovation from his home near Glenwood Cemetery, where his final years of quiet reflection met the community's respect.