by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 8, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Barbara Walters was a brilliant television broadcaster for 65 years from 1951 through 2015. Her ability to ask the right questions at the right time made her the one chosen to interview some of the world’s most famous people, including: Fidel Castro, Anwar Sadat,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 26, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Arnold Palmer was called “The King” because he was considered to be among the world’s greatest and most popular golfers of all time. From 1955 to 1973, he won 92 national and international championships, with 62 of them on the U.S. PGA Tour. In 2004...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 1, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Jerry Lee Lewis, nicknamed “the Killer,” was a world famous rock and roll singer and songwriter and one of the most influential pop pianists of the 20th century. He played the piano with his fists, elbows, heels, and rump, and often kicked the piano bench...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 9, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Loretta Lynn came from severe poverty as the second of eight children of a coal miner in Kentucky, to become arguably America’s most prolific singer and songwriter over a 70-year career in country music. She started her career in 1960 after being married at age 15 and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
In the year 2000, a C-SPAN Poll ranking all U.S. Presidents was conducted by 58 presidential historians and scholars. Harry S. Truman ranked fifth behind Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Truman and Winston Churchill were...
