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Dan Rooney walking the sideline before his Pittsburgh Steelers played the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl in 2009.
Amy Sancetta/Associated Press; thumbnail, Jeff Haynes/Agence France-Presse; Getty Images, 2006
Dan Rooney
Died on April 13, 2017 at age 84
Mr. Rooney, the longtime Pittsburgh Steelers chairman, helped shape the modern National Football League and was one of the last surviving links to its founders.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.