by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 25, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
As his doctor and friend, I knew Larry King as the hardest working person I have ever met. He hosted a nightly national Mutual Broadcasting System talk show on 500 radio stations from 1978 to 1994, which were rebroadcast until 2010. He would broadcast live Monday...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 21, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was named the best female athlete of the 20th century by the Associated Press. In the 1932 Olympics, she became the only track and field athlete, male or female, ever to win individual Olympic medals in running, throwing and jumping...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 12, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Tommy Heinsohn was inducted into the National Basketball Association Hall of Fame twice, first as a player and then again as a coach. He spent 60 years with the Boston Celtics, as a player from 1956 to 1965, their coach from 1969 to 1978, and more than 30 years as a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 4, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Phyllis McGuire, lead singer of the “McGuire Sisters” who were famous in the 1950s and 1960s, died on December 29, 2020 at age 89 in Las Vegas. In 1968, she left her singing career for a multi-year affair with equally famous Sam Giancana, who was a notorious gangster...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 28, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Today my favorite song is “By the Rivers of Babylon”, the second highest-selling single of all time in the UK. I heard the song for the first time a few weeks ago on YouTube. It was recorded in 1978 by “Boney M,” whose original members were with the band from 1976...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 21, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Linus Pauling died at age 93 of prostate cancer, a disease that affects nearly 100 percent of North American men over age 90. He was one of the most influential chemists of all time, and also a peace activist, author, and educator. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
