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Jack O’Neill before windsurfing off Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1982. He revolutionized the surfing industry through the sale of wetsuits.
Dan Coyro/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press
Jack O'Neill
Died on June 2, 2017 at age 94
Mr. O’Neill popularized the neoprene wetsuits that defied the cold, the calendar and the continents to create an endless summer for surfers around the world.
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.