by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 8, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Shannen Doherty was a television and film actress whose roles included Jenny Wilder in Little House on the Prairie (1982), Maggie Malene in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985); Kris Witherspoon in Our House (1986–1988), Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990, 2008...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 22, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
On July 12, 2023, ‘Doctor Ruth” died at age 96 of complications from a stroke that she first suffered a year before. She was a sex therapist and talk show host who at age 52 in 1980 started her radio show, “Sexually Speaking”, on WYNY-FM in New York City. The show...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 13, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Actor Donald Sutherland died on June 20, 2024, after suffering from prostate cancer and severe lung damage from smoking up to four packs of cigarettes per day. Several years before he died, he stopped smoking and wouldn’t let anyone smoke near him. He kept smokers at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
The track world has lost an epic coach, and society has lost a man who helped to develop leaders among his aspiring athletes. Johnson died of prostate cancer on June 29, 2024, at age 89. He coached athletes in track and field for more than fifty years, with...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 26, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
On June 18, 2024, Willie Mays died at age 93 from heart failure. He was one of the best baseball players of all time and went straight from high school to playing center field from 1951 to 1973 in the National League for the New York and San Francisco Giants and New...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 20, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
All-Star basketball player Jerry West died with atrial fibrillation on Jun 12, 2024, at the age of 86. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1960s and early ’70s, was named to 12 All-NBA teams along with five All-Defense teams, and is still the only player in...
