Owen D. Young
Businessman
Died when: 87 years 257 days (1052 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
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Owen D.Young (October 27, 1874 – July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
He is known for the plan to settle Germany's World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America.
Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.
RCA was divested in 1932 and liquidated by GE in 1986.
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