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Thompson was born into a middle-class family in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons of Virginia Davison Ray (1908, Springfield, Kentucky – March 20, 1998, Louisville), who worked as head librarian at the Louisville Free Public Library and Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893, Horse Cave, Kentucky – July 3, 1952, Louisville), a public insurance adjuster and World War I veteran. [6]
Date of death Age at death Cause of death; 1 Sid Vicious: February 2, 1979 21 Drug overdose 2 John Belushi: March 5, 1982 33 Drug overdose 3 River Phoenix: October 31, 1993 23 Drug-induced heart failure: 4 Hunter S. Thompson: February 20, 2005 67 Suicide 5 Marvin Gaye: April 1, 1984 44 Murder (shot by his father) 6 John F. Kennedy Jr.
Don Johnson and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson enjoyed a surprising friendship for nearly three decades until Thompson's death by suicide in 2005. "I loved him," the actor tells PEOPLE of the ...
The following notable people died by suicide.This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed.
Hunter S. Thompson‘s widow, Anita Thompson, posted a photo on Facebook with a heartfelt letter about a time the Hefner helped her after her husband’s suicide left her with very little money.
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (/ ə ˈ k ɒ s t ə /; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement.He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), [3] and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The musical, which spans Thompson's childhood in Kentucky to his death in Colorado, tracks the creation of his mythologized image through his best-known works — "Hell's Angels," "The Kentucky ...