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John Warnock

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30,268

days lived

82

age at death

Born
October 6, 1940 in Salt Lake City
Died
August 19, 2023 in Los Altos (aged 82)
Zodiac
♎︎Libra·dragon 🐉
Updated Feb 2026

About

John Edward Warnock was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and CEO for his remaining sixteen years at the company. Although he retired as CEO in 2001, he continued to co-chair the Adobe Board of Directors with Geschke until 2017. Warnock pioneered the development of graphics, publishing, web and electronic document technologies that have revolutionized the field of publishing and visual communications.

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2023
Day 30,268
Age 82

Death of John Warnock

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Aug 19, 2023

John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., passed away at the age of 82.

2017
Day 27,847
Age 76

Adobe co-founder

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Jan 1, 2017

Warnock remained co-chairman of Adobe until 2017.

2009
Day 24,925
Age 68

National Medal of Technology

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Jan 1, 2009

Warnock and Geschke received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

2008
Day 24,559
Age 67

American Ingenuity Award

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Jan 1, 2008

Warnock and Geschke received the American Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian.

1999
Day 21,272
Age 58

Marriott School of Management Award

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Jan 1, 1999

Warnock received the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management Award.

1995
Day 19,811
Age 54

Named an ACM Fellow

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Jan 1, 1995

Warnock was named as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

1986
Day 16,524
Age 45

Adobe President and CEO

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Jan 1, 1986

Warnock served as President and CEO of Adobe until 1986.

1985
Day 16,159
Age 44

Developed Adobe Illustrator

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Jan 1, 1985

Adobe developed Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics editor.

Day 16,159
Age 44

Developed Aldus PageMaker

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96%
Jan 1, 1985

Adobe licensed PostScript to Aldus, enabling desktop publishing with PageMaker.

1982
Day 15,063
Age 41

Developed PostScript

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96%
Jan 1, 1982

Warnock and Geschke developed PostScript, a page description language.

Day 15,063
Age 41

Founded Adobe Systems

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96%
Jan 1, 1982

Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe Systems Incorporated.

1978
Day 13,602
Age 37

Xerox PARC Researcher

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Jan 1, 1978

Warnock worked as a researcher at Xerox PARC.

1969
Day 10,315
Age 28

Evans & Sutherland

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Jan 1, 1969

Warnock worked at Evans & Sutherland.

Day 10,315
Age 28

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

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Jan 1, 1969

Earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah.

1964
Day 8,488
Age 23

M.S. in Mathematics

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Jan 1, 1964

Earned a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Utah.

1962
Day 7,758
Age 21

B.S. in Mathematics and Philosophy

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Jan 1, 1962

Graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Utah.

1940
Day 1
Age 0

Birth of John Warnock

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Oct 6, 1940

John Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.