The color "rebeccapurple" was named for a girl named Rebecca Allison Meyer and she expired 12 hours after she turned 6. She had brain cancer.
Rebecca's father was Eric Meyer and he is an American web design consultant and author. He advocates on behalf of web standards, most importantly CSS by controlling the way html pages look.
Eric Meyer has wrote several books to help people figure out how to make CSS work. He basically helped make CSS what it is for people to use.