John Holohan was driving the band van when it flipped on a highway in Arizona. He was 31. Bayside's guitarist was injured. Holohan died at the scene. The band had been on tour for months. They canceled the rest of the dates. Their next album was dedicated to him. They're still playing.
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Mary Wimbush played Julia Pargetter on The Archers for 35 years, the BBC radio soap that's run since 1951. She recorded her final episode three weeks before she died. Listeners heard her voice for months after. The show killed her character off-air, with a quiet funeral. 11 million people mourned someone they'd never seen.
Hal Anger invented the gamma camera in 1957. It detects radiation inside the human body and creates images of organs and tumors. It's still the basis for nuclear medicine imaging. Millions of scans have been done with his invention. He made cancer visible. He never became famous for it.
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