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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Alden
Black was a California businessman known for aquaculture and
oceanography, and for his marriage to Shirley Temple Black. Black was
born in Oakland, California. He was married to the legendary former
child actress and diplomat Shirley Temple from December 16, 1950, until
his death from myelodysplastic syndrome on August 4, 2005, at his home
in Woodside, California, at the age of 86. They had a son Charles Alden
Black Jr. and a daughter Lori Black. Black graduated from Hotchkiss
School in Connecticut and Stanford University. His father, James Byers
Black, was president of Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Black attended
Harvard Business School for one year, and left to enter the Navy in 1941
