what celebrities suffered from als who retired from baseball because of it?
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had ALS for 55 years, the longest recorded time. He died at the age of 76 in 2018. Cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg, whose ALS was diagnosed in 2017, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. He died at the age of 57 in 2018.