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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.
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.
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 ...
Hefner passed away from natural causes at the Playboy mansion. He was 91. Hefner’s death comes 12 years after the legendary journalist Thompson died from a self-inflicted gunshot to his head at ...
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 ...
Amidst a backdrop of Nixon-era America, marked by riots, protests, and the war in Vietnam, young journalist Hunter S. Thompson visits the 1968 Democratic National Convention and experiences firsthand the brutality of the Chicago Police Department against protestors, "radicalizing" his political outlook against authoritative uses of force.
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 ...