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Events on Tuesday 26 March 1996 1
1912 – 1996David Packard (1912-1996)Died 26 March 1996, aged 83David Packard co-founded Hewlett-Packard with Bill Hewlett in a Palo Alto garage in 1939, building it into one of the world's largest technology companies. He also served as US Deputy Secretary of Defense in the late 1960s. Packard was a major philanthropist through the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.