SLIDESHOW: Bill Gates Through The Years

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SLIDESHOW: Bill Gates Through The Years

Bill Gates and Paul Allen at the Lakeside School.

Bill Gates, 13, and Paul Allen at the Lakeside School.

Bill Gates' yearbook photo.

Gates, 17, at Harvard.

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1975 Bill Gates, with co-founders of Microsoft.

1977 Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after an alleged traffic violation.

June 1987

Date Unknown Gates speaking to interviewer.

September 1990

Date Unknown Gates on a cell phone, from the early days of Microsoft in Redmond.

September 1997

Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft Corporation, Jan. 25, 1998

4/2/98 Brussels, Belgium. Video Grabs. Microsoft Bill Gates Was Hit In The Face By 4 Fresh Cream Tarts By The Infamous Pie Thrower, Noel Godin, As The Computer Mogul Arrived Brussels For A Reception. (Photo By Getty Images)

NOV 1999 - THE WORLD EXCLUSIVE LIVE BROADCAST OF BILL GATES' KEYNOTE ADDRESS FROM COMDEX, LAS VEGAS IN DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. THE SPEECH, WHICH IS BEING BEAMED IN VIA SATELLITE FOR KEY PARTNERS, MEDIA AND ANALYSTS ONLY, WILL OUTLINE BILL'S VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET AND WINDOWS. (Photo by Patrick Riviere/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Bill Gates

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 03: Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sites down for a meeting with House Foreign Affairs Committee members in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The world's richest person valued at about $77.7 billion, Gates was meeting with the committee to discuss the work of the foundation around the world. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

October 2004 Gates in an interview with KIRO's Amy Clancy.

March 2004 Bill Gates receives honorary KBE award from Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. At right is his wife Melinda French Gates.

March 2006 China President Hu Jintao shakes hands with Gates in Redmond.

June 15, 2006 Gates announced he would be relinquishing his daily duties with Microsoft in 2008 to work more closely with his foundation.

UNDATED FILE PHOTO: Bill Gates and wife. (photo by Diane Freed)

February, 2006 The Microsoft Chairman looks at an empty oversized bowl on a giant kitchen table, accompanied by Portugal's Science and Technology minister Mariano Gago at the knowledge and Living Science pavilion at the Parque das Nacoes, Lisbon, Portugal.

September 2003 Bill Gates with father William Gates Sr.

October 2002 Minnie Mouse, Bill Gates, as Microsoft chairman, Mickey Mouse and Michael Eisner, as Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO (l-r), during launch of MSN 8 software, New York City.

September 2000 Bill Gates administers oral polio vaccine to Indian child, with help from Madhu Krishna, as Gates Children's vaccine program officer, at NDMC Maternal & Child Health Chanakyapuri clinic, New Delhi, India.

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Bill Gates and Paul Allen at the Lakeside School.

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