Phillip John Donahue (December 21, 1935 – August 18, 2024)

WASHINGTON (TND) — The host and creator of the"The Phil
Donahue Show" died Sunday after a lengthy illness.

According to a family statement, the television pioneer died 
at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 

Scott Bloomquist, a Dirt Late Model racing legend and Hall of
Famer, was tragically killed in a small plane crash near his
home in Mooresburg, Tennessee early Friday morning. He
was 60. 

 
Scott Bloomquist during practice for the 16th Annual Grassy Smith Memorial 50-lap Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series
event at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, South Carolina
in 2014. 
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CAMILLE BOHANNON

Singer Madonna (Louise Ciccone) the”Queen of Pop” is
66  years young today.    

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Peter Marshall (Ralph Pierre LaCock)
(March 30, 1926 – August 15, 2024)

Peter Marshall, Emmy-award winning game show host of
“Hollywood Squares” from 1966 to 1981 on NBC, died
of kidney failure Thursday in Encino, Los Angeles,
California.

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995)

Former New York Yankees star Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer
at the age of 63. While “The Mick” patrolled center field and batted
clean-up between 1951 and 1968, the Yankees won 12 American
League pennants and seven World Series championships.

He was an American League Most Valuable Player three times
and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

June 15, 1953