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Gygax died in 2008, Arneson died in 2009, I don't know how many of their cohort have gotten cancer or heart attacks or other stuff that generally get listed as "natural causes" on a coroner's report. We are slowly losing that first generation of gamers who had to argue at length whether players should be allowed to read the rules, whether players should choose their character's race and class, and whether they should roll their own dice.
Yes, however, to appease the pedants out there, saying Gygax and Arneson and the rest of the Geneva Lake crew "grew up on" DnD is a bit of a misnomer. They didn't grow up on it, they invented it, and they were well into adulthood at the time.