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U.S. baseball player Lou Gehrig brought national and international attention to the disease in 1939 when he abruptly retired after being diagnosed with ALS/MND; he would die two years later. Former guitar virtuoso Jason Becker and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking also suffer from the disease.
Founder of care homes Leonard Cheshire VC, owner from 1957-1966 of Athelhampton House in Dorset Sir Robert Cooke F.R.C.S., theoretical physicist Victor Emery, Rangers footballer Sam English, Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter, blues singer and guitarist Leadbelly, Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, jazz giant Charles Mingus, Hollywood actor David Niven, Richard Allen (abstract artist), legendary Leeds United manager Don Revie, teacher and book subject Morrie Schwartz, American television actor Lane Smith, linguist Larry Trask, Guardian journalist Jill Tweedie, avant-garde guitarist Derek Bailey, American soap opera veteran Michael Zaslow, libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst, Harry Browne, and ex-Celtic football player Jimmy Johnstone died from the disease.
Diane Pretty was a British woman with the disease who was involved in a prominent right-to-die case in the early 2000s.
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