by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 25, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Francoise Gilot was an accomplished French artist whose works include more than 1,600 paintings. She was appointed an Officer of the Légion d’honneur, the French government’s highest honor for the arts. She died in a New York City hospital on June 6, 2023,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 18, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Ryan O’Neal was a very famous Hollywood film actor and television star who will be remembered most for his role in Love Story (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 12, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman appointed to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States and was also the first female majority leader of a state senate, as a Republican in Arizona. She did everything better than her peers and opened doors for women to be...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 2, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
In 1938, when he was 15, Henry Kissinger’s family escaped from Nazi Germany and came to the United States. They were so poor that he attended a New York high school at night and worked in a shaving brush factory during the day. At age 20, he was drafted into the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 26, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Bobby Knight was one of the most successful college basketball coaches of all time. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991 as the coach of college teams that won 902 games and lost 371. At Indiana University from 1971 to 2000, his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 20, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
One of our all-time favorites! Merle Haggard was a legendary country music singer and guitar player with 38 songs that reached number one on the country charts, and 71 in the top ten. His more than 70 albums and 600 songs, 250 of which he wrote himself, helped...
