by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 22, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Glen Campbell was the son of a sharecropper who went from childhood poverty to wealth and world fame as a country singer, but he spent his last several years suffering from dementia and died from its complications at age 81 on August 8, 2017. He won five Grammys, sold...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 14, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
During World War II, Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, saved the free world with his inspirational speeches and by refusing to hand Britain over to Hitler, even though some members of the royal family and Parliament wanted to surrender their country. ...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 12, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Karen Carpenter and her brother Richard sang together to form “The Carpenters”, one of the leading singing groups in the 1970s. When she died of heart failure at age 32, she made the world painfully aware of a disease called anorexia nervosa. Dieting by...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 2, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Clark Gable had just about every known lifestyle risk factor for the heart attack that killed him at the very young age of 59. Perhaps best known for his role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939), he was the leading man in more than 60 motion pictures and was...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 24, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Colin Powell was the first African-American Secretary of State, the 16th U.S. national security advisor and a 4-star general who was the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He died from COVID-19 because he had multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer that...
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...
