by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 2, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
What do you think when you hear of a 49-year-old singer-songwriter, fashion model and actress who was famous throughout the world, who fell off her bike, hit her head, passed out and was taken to an emergency room where she was diagnosed as having heat stroke and then...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Just about everyone has heard her sing "I am Sixteen, Going on Seventeen" as Liesl, the eldest daughter of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music. The song is about the first love of a 16 year old girl. In real life, she was a college...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 11, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
What would you think about a man who was worth almost eight billion dollars repeatedly denying that his company's weight-loss drug caused heart damage? Fenfluramine was withdrawn from the U.S. market in 1997, but the French parent company, Laboratories...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 4, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Gene Wilder was a beloved American stage, screen and TV actor who made people laugh just by being himself. He was also a successful screenwriter, film director and author. He is best remembered for the movies where he appeared to be naive and childlike:...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 28, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Eero Mantyranta was one of the greatest cross country skiers ever. He competed in four Winter Olympics (1960–1972) and won seven medals. In the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, he won the 15 kilometer race by an incredible forty seconds...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 21, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
One of the greatest natural track athletes of all time died from lung cancer at age 58. He went from extreme poverty to athletic riches and back to extreme poverty, never having won an Olympic medal. He was unknown to most people but is a legend to all true fans...
