by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 19, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Louisa Moritz was a Cuban-American actress who played mostly dumb blonde roles in several films and TV situation comedies. She was best known for her role as Rose in the 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, with Jack Nicholson. She appeared on television...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 4, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Doris Day was the top box-office movie star earner in the United States four times and won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Legend Award from the Society of Singers, and the 1989 Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award. She received the 2004 Presidential...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 27, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
This is the story of a world-famous scientist who noticed that the Bulgarian peasants in Eastern Europe lived to very old age, that they ate yogurt every day, and that yogurt is loaded with lactobacilli bacteria. He published his theories on aging in Nature of Man...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 21, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
“Unknown Kid Wins the Greatest of All Marathons” — That was the Boston Post headline in 1926. The most unbelievable upset ever in a major marathon was pulled off by Johnny Miles, a 20 year-old who • had never entered a marathon, • never ran in a major race, •...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 24, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
For many years the world’s fastest human was Bob Hayes, the only man to win Olympic gold medals and a Super Bowl ring, and to hold world records in the 60, 100, and 220-yard dashes and the Olympic 100-meter dash at the same time. In the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, he...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 20, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Each year, more than 100,000 North Americans die from medical mistakes. In 1962, newspapers reported that Eleanor Roosevelt may have died because her doctors at one of the most respected medical schools in the world did not diagnose her infection with tuberculosis...
