by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 23, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Jim Bouton was not good enough to play on his high school baseball team but ended up as a professional All-Star baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees who won both of his starts in the 1964 World Series. He was also a best-selling author, movie actor, and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 21, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
My favorite song ever is “Alma” by Tom Lehrer, based on the true story of Alma Mahler from her sensational New York Times obituary in 1965. Tom Lehrer was a student in the math department at Harvard just before I arrived there, and his satirical songs were...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 14, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Jared Lorenzen was arguably one of the greatest high school athletes ever. At Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, he was the football quarterback who led his team to a four-year 41-2 won/loss record, passed for 6,822 yards and had 89 career touchdown...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 7, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
For more than 60 years, Dr. John sang, played and wrote songs in the blues, pop, jazz, boogie-woogie, and rock and roll. He dressed in Mardi Gras costumes and his performances were often staged as voodoo ceremonies or folk medicine shows. He recorded 39...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 30, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
At age 51, Martin Van Buren became the first native-born president of the United States because he was born after the American Revolution. He helped to build the modern Democratic Party and won reparations from France for properties seized during the Napoleonic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 23, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Frederic Chopin was one of the greatest composers of solo piano music and a gifted pianist whose incredible techniques are still copied by concert pianists. He had a disease that made him sick from early childhood on, and he died at the tragically young age of 39. He...
