A man of many talents

Paul Allen was born in Seattle on January 21, 1953.

He was a voracious reader, mostly of novels and science fiction.

Allen was probably best known among the general public for owning the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. He left Microsoft’s dayto-day operations in 1983, against the wishes of Bill Gates, a year after beginning treatments for Hodgkin’s disease.

Allen was an accomplished electric guitar player.