Hunter S. Thompson stencil (BMCL/Shutterstock) Sign up to receive our latest updates! Register. ... Hunter Stockton Thompson was born in Louisville Kentucky in July 1937 to middle-class parents.

Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be blasted from a cannon mounted inside a 53-foot-high sculpture of the journalist's "gonzo fist" emblem, his wife said Tuesday. The cannon shot, ...