by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 13, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Robbie Robertson was a Canadian musician who played lead guitar and sang and wrote songs for Bob Dylan in the 1960s and 1970s, and with “The Band” until 1978. Then he continued his successful career as a solo recording artist and film music composer, and wrote books....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 31, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Sinead O’Connor was a very successful and popular Irish singer and musician who in 1987, at age 21, released her debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” that made her famous internationally. Her second album, released in 1990, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 28, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
What would you do if you knew that you were one of the best young classical singers in the world because you had won the 1925 New York Philharmonic voice competition over more than 300 of America’s best up-and-coming young singers, got wonderful reviews as the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 14, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Lisa Marie Presley died from scar tissue from weight loss surgery. She died on January 12, 2023 at the very young age of 54, from intestinal obstruction caused by previous scar tissue from her gastric-bypass weight loss surgery that was supposed to prevent food from...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
The heat wave that has affected much of North America this summer should remind us of the signs and dangers of heatstroke. Twenty-two years ago, on August 1, 2001, Korey Stringer died of heat stroke at age 27. He was 6′ 4″ tall, weighed 335 pounds and had...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 1, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Today’s extremely conservative U.S. Supreme Court members are all aware of the opinions of Antonin Scalia, who was appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Scalia was the first Italian-American justice and he spent the next 30 years as one of...
