5TH OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE.

RANDY PAUSCH: INSPIRED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WITH HIS DYING SPEECH.
Randolph Frederick "Randy Pausch{ October 23, 1960 -- July 25,2008} was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon Univer$ity{CMU} in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania.
Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer,a terminal illness,in September of 2006. He gave an upbeat lecture entitled "
The last lecture:Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on September 18,2007 @ Carnegie Mellon,which became a popular YouTube and led to other media appearances. He then co-authored a book called "The Last Lecture" on the same theme, which became a New YorkTimes best-seller.
Pausch died of complications from pancreatic cancer only July 25,2008. In his famous speech, Pausch showed a list of his childhood dreams,and explained how he achieved each of them. His dreams were: begin in Zero gravity,playing in the National football league,being the author of a world book Encyclopedia article,meeting and being Captain Kirk,being "one of the guys who won the big stufed animals in the park", and becoming a Disney Imagineer. He was given 3 months of life, he lived 3 more years.