by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 13, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Actor Donald Sutherland died on June 20, 2024, after suffering from prostate cancer and severe lung damage from smoking up to four packs of cigarettes per day. Several years before he died, he stopped smoking and wouldn’t let anyone smoke near him. He kept smokers at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Louis Gossett was a very famous movie and television actor who won the 1982 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing a no-nonsense drill sergeant in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” where he had prepared for the part by taking field drills with a real marine...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
David Soul was the sad-eyed, blond actor who portrayed Detective Ken Hutchinson in the television series “Starsky & Hutch” from 1975 to 1979. He followed this by singing “Don’t Give Up on Us”, the number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 in...
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...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 6, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Leonard Nimoy won three Emmy awards for starring in “Star Trek” ((1966-1969) as Spock, a 23rd-century space voyager from the planet Vulcan. He was known for his pointed ears and constant use of the word “fascinating.” Nimoy was also an actor in...
