by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 18, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Phyllis George was named “Miss Texas” at age 21 in 1970, quickly followed by winning “Miss America.” At age 25, She became famous as the most prominent woman is sports broadcasting, co-hosting the National Football League’s weekly pregame show with Brent...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Richard Feynman was probably killed by the first atomic bomb explosion in Trinity, New Mexico in July 1945, even though it took 42 years for him to die from it in 1988. Feynman was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. He helped to develop the atomic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 1, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
When you were in school, you may have read some of Eugene O’Neill’s more than 50 plays, such as Long Day’s Journey into Night, Desire Under the Elms, or A Moon for the Misbegotten. He was the only American playwright to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 26, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
When I was in high school, my history teacher told us that William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, died in 1841 from pneumonia because he didn’t wear a hat when he stood in the cold for hours during his inauguration. After that, I wore my...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 19, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
It appears that the current COVID-19 pandemic will not be anywhere near as harmful as the swine flu influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 that started near the end of World War I, infected 500 million people, and killed about 39 million people, which was 2.3 percent of the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 6, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
I have no data to show that popular musicians are at greater risk of death from COVID-19 than the general population, but we note the headlines marking the passing of many beloved artists just in the past several days: • Joe Diffie, a Grand Old Opry country music...
