by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 3, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Many experts consider Naim Suleymanoglu to be the greatest weightlifter of all time because he set an incredible 46 world records, won three straight Olympic gold medals and won eight world championships. He set a world record of 190 kilograms (419 pounds) in the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 26, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
In spite of stuttering from age three onward, Mel Tillis became a world-famous singer and songwriter, movie actor and television host. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007. ...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 5, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
On October 3, 2017, Isabella Karle died of a brain tumor at age 95, four years after her husband, Nobel Prize winner Jerome Karle, died at age 94 of liver cancer. More than 70 years before their deaths, both were exposed to radiation when they worked in the Manhattan...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 28, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Vera Caslavska was the heroine of the 1968 Olympics, not because she was the dominant athlete at these games in which she won four gold and two silver medals in gymnastics, and not because she had won 35 medals in the Olympics, World and European championships. ...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 22, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Ted Corbitt ran more miles in training, often up to 200 miles a week, than any runner I ever heard of, yet his fastest time in a marathon was a mediocre 2 hours 26 minutes 44 seconds, almost 24 minutes slower than the present world record for that distance. Top...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 15, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Tom Petty was a rock singer, songwriter and record producer who was the lead singer of the Heartbreakers, the Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He was one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with more than 80 million records sold over his...
