by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 11, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
From 1934 to 1977, Al Capp wrote the most-read comic strip in North America, Li’l Abner, about hillbillies in the fictional town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. It had 60 million daily readers in more than 1000 newspapers in 28 countries. Li’l Abner Yokum, a stupid...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 31, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
John Madden was 32 years old when the Oakland Raiders hired him to become the youngest head coach ever in the National Football League. He went on never to have a losing season, with an outstanding 103-32-7 record in his 10 seasons with the team. They made the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 27, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu came from a very poor black family in South Africa during apartheid’s darkest hours to become Archbishop of Cape Town in 1985 at age 54. He led the movement to rid South Africa of its system of racial segregation and white...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 19, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
At 7 feet, 7.5 inches, Neil Fingleton was the tallest man in the United Kingdom. He played basketball at the University of North Carolina and Holy Cross College and as a pro in the United States, Spain, China, Italy, Greece and England. He later became an actor who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 14, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Mike Nesmith was a guitar player and writer of popular songs who was a member of the 1960s pop rock band “The Monkees.” The Monkees television show, which ran from 1966 to 1968, was a situation comedy series about a band that wanted to be The Beatles, but could not...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 7, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Bob Dole was a United States senator from Kansas for 27 years, from 1969 to 1996, the Republican Leader of the Senate for 11 years, the Senate Majority Leader for three years, the Republican presidential nominee in 1996 and the vice presidential nominee in 1976. He...
