by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 10, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Do you know why a healthy person who makes other people sick may be called "Typhoid Mary"? There really was a Typhoid Mary. She was an apparently healthy person who caused more than ten documented epidemics of typhoid fever, at least three documented...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 3, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Peter Tork sang and played bass and keyboard for The Monkees, a television show about a band spoofing The Beatles. The show ran for two years from 1966 to 1968 and won an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy. The band had several songs that became number one on the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 24, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Albert Finney was an English actor best remembered for his Academy Award-nominated roles as the lawyer in Erin Brockovich, Geoffrey Firmin in Under the Volcano, Sir in The Dresser, Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, and the title role in the 1963 classic,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 17, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
I cried when I heard the life story of Scott Joplin, and you will cry also. He was an African-American composer and pianist whose 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas paved the way for other black artists to develop ragtime music...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 10, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
On January 22, 1973, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 65 from what was probably his fifth heart attack. He was one of the hardest-working presidents ever and could have lived...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 3, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great died suddenly at the very young age of 32. This month, more than 2,300 years later, Dr Katherine Hall of the University of Otaga in New Zealand gives a very strong argument that he died of nerve damage from Guillain-Barré Syndrome (The...
