In what year did Sam Walton pass away?

Sam Walton passed away in 1992.

Samuel Moore Walton, Walmart's co-founder, died on April 5, 1992, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was 74 and had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. He was buried at Bentonville Cemetery in Bentonville, Arkansas, the longtime home of his family and company.

Walton had built Walmart from a single discount store opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962 into a national retail powerhouse. He also launched Sam's Club in 1983, extending the company's low-price strategy into membership-based warehouse retail. His business philosophy emphasized close attention to competitors, efficient distribution, and a strong focus on customers.

His death occurred shortly after he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush in March 1992. The company had already become enormous by then, operating thousands of stores and employing hundreds of thousands of people. A frequent mistake is placing his death in the late 1980s or early 1990s; the exact year was 1992.