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| birth_name = Richard Adolf Bloch

| birth_date = February 15, 1926

| birth_place = [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], United StatesU.S.

| death_date = July{{death 21,date 2004and (age 78)|2004|7|21|1926|2|15}}

| alma_matereducation = [[University of = Pennsylvania]]

| occupation alma_mater = businessman

| known_for occupation = co-founder of [[H&R Block]] Businessman

| children known_for = LindaCo-founder Blockof Lyon<br> Barbara[[H&R Block Stanny<br> Nancy Block Linsely]]

| parents children = 3

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| relatives = [[Henry W. Bloch]] (brother)

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| spouse = Annette Modell

'''Richard Adolf Bloch''' (February 15, 1926 – July 21, 2004)<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/business/richard-bloch-78-businessman-who-helped-create-h-r-block22xbloch.html|title=NYRichard TimesBloch, obituary78, Businessman Who Helped Create H&R Block, Dies|accessdate=March 305, 2009 2024| work=The New York Times | first=Sabrina | last=Tavernise | date=July 22, 2004}}</ref><ref name="HRB">{{cite web|url=http://newsroom.hrblock.com/richard-bloch/|title=Biography from H&R Block website|accessdate=April 8, 2015}}</ref> was an American entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for starting the [[H&R Block]] tax preparation and personal finance company with his older brother [[Henry W. Bloch|Henry]] in 1955. His personal experience with cancer led him to invest in helping others fight and overcome the disease.

Bloch was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family in [[Kansas City]], the son of Hortense (Bienenstock) and Leon Bloch.<ref>{{cite web | title = H&R Block | publisher = [[Jewish Virtual Library]] | url = https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_03134.html | accessdate = 2014-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/henry-bloch-h-r-block-s-co-founding-tv-pitchman-dies-at-96-1.1248166|title=Henry Bloch, H&R Block's Co-Founding TV Pitchman, Dies at 96 - Article|date=April 23, 2019}}</ref> In the 4th grade, Bloch found a hand press in his uncle's attic and began his first business as a printer. By the time he was 12, he had three automatic presses and was providing printing services to several [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] high schools. He sold his business to an [[Iowa]] college to use as a print course teaching model.

Bloch died of heart failure on July 21, 2004, at the age of 78.<ref name="NYT"/> He was survived by his wife, Annette (née Modell),<ref>[http://www.palmsprings.com/blog/palmsprings-com-spotlight-an-interview-with-annette-bloch/ Palm Springs.com: "PalmSprings.com Spotlight: An Interview with Annette Bloch"] December 10th, 2012</ref> daughters Linda Lyon, Barbara Stanny, and Nancy Linsely<ref name="NYT"/> and ten grandchildren.

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