by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 18, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
NOTE: You can listen to me read and discuss my favorite poem on my archived radio show Hour 90, which was broadcast in 2004. This was actually one of my last shows; we had just announced the end of show (after 25 years of broadcasts), so many of the callers that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 12, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
On October 7, 1959, singer Mario Lanza died suddenly at age 38 of a heart attack just as he was getting ready to check out of a medical clinic in Rome. He didn’t mean to kill himself, but his entire adult life was full of behaviors and actions that are known to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 5, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
George Jones lived and sang about sorrow and poverty, and became one of the greatest country music singers of all time, He recorded more than 900 songs and charted the most hits of any country singer, but he paid the price of spending a tremendous amount of time on...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 28, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Alice Coachman should have been one of the most famous female athletes of all time. She was the 1948 Olympic high jump champion and the winner of 25 national track and field championships, including ten consecutive U.S. high jump championships and five national...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 21, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Johnny Cash wrote more than 1500 country songs and became America’s most famous country singer. His fans included every president in his lifetime from Richard Nixon on, and almost everyone recognizes his voice. In his fifties he was diagnosed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 14, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
A huge number of studies have shown that running helps to prevent heart attacks, so I couldn’t believe the news that running guru Jim Fixx had died of a heart attack at age 52 after his daily run in Hardwick, Vermont. He was the guy who made running popular,...
