LOS ANGELES — Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote the 1999 book “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” has died. He was 47.
Freeman died Aug. 17 after falling and hitting his head at his home in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, said his father, Roy.
The book’s title meant “You should live every day like it would be your last, and there’s not that many people who do,” Neil Teplica, who wrote the book with Freeman, said Monday. “It’s a credit to Dave — he didn’t have enough days, but he lived them like he should have.”
Together, the authors had visited almost every site, which included the familiar (the Academy Awards ceremony, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain) as well as the more exotic (the National Hollerin’ Contest in North Carolina, Australia’s Nude Night Surfing contest).
Weller shared Nobel prize for work on polio
Dr. Thomas H. Weller, the Harvard virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing techniques to grow the polio virus in the laboratory, a feat that laid the groundwork for the development of the polio vaccine and the feared virus’s near-eradication from the world, died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Needham, Mass. He was 93.
The techniques developed by Weller, Dr. John F. Enders and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins made it possible to grow a host of viruses in the laboratory and led to the development of many vaccines.
Weller also isolated the rubella (German measles) and herpes zoster viruses and demonstrated that the rubella virus and cytomegalovirus could be transmitted congenitally to fetuses, producing birth defects.
Dr. Dre’s 20-year-old son found dead at home
LOS ANGELES — The 20-year-old son of rap impresario Dr. Dre was found dead over the weekend in his suburban San Fernando Valley home, coroner’s officials said.
Andre R. Young Jr. had been out with friends the night before and was discovered in his bed by his mother at 10:24 a.m. Saturday, said Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter.
“She found him unresponsive and called paramedics,” Winter said, adding that an autopsy had been completed but that determination of the cause of death was deferred pending the outcome of a “gamut of tests, including toxicology.”
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