by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 15, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Mickey Gilley was a country music legend who recorded 42 singles that reached the top 40 on the U.S. Country charts and 17 No. 1 country hits. His most famous songs include “Room Full of Roses”, “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time”, and “Stand by Me.”...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 8, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Joe DiMaggio was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His 56-game-hitting streak record still stands today. He played in 10 World Series and his team won nine times. He was a three-time American League most-valuable player and 2-time champion of the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 1, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Members of the Judd family wrote that famous country music singer, Naomi Judd, died on April 30, 2022 at age 76 from “the disease of mental illness.” She suffered from depression and “hideous panic attacks” throughout her lifetime and finally committed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 15, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Early on the morning of July 2, 1961, sixty-one year old Ernest Hemingway, one of America’s greatest writers and the winner of both the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize, sat in the foyer of his home and shot himself in the head with a double-barreled shotgun. I believe...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 11, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Bobby Rydell was a rock and roll singer and actor who was a “teen idol” in the 1960s. He recorded 34 Top-40 hit-records and sold more than 25 million records, including Volare, Wild One, We Got Love, Kissin’ Time, Swingin’ School, Wildwood Days, and Forget Him. In...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 2, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
On Thursday, March 18, 2022, University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender woman to win an NCAA Division I swimming championship when she won the 500-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 4 minutes, 33.24 seconds. She beat the...
