Harry Thompson

Few names from 20th-century American history spark arguments quite like Lee Harvey Oswald’s — the man accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, still divides opinion as lone killer, patsy, or something in between. The official evidence is more specific than most people expect, and the gap between what’s proven and … Read more

There’s a small thrill in watching an actor go from a tiny horror film about faith to one of the most ambitious fantasy series on television — and Morfydd Clark did exactly that. Here’s how her Welsh roots, her public ADHD disclosure, and her rising fame fit together. Birthdate: March 17, 1989 · Birthplace: Stockholm, … Read more

There’s a particular quiet that settles over Edward Hopper’s paintings — the hush of a diner at 3 a.m., the emptiness of a hotel room after dark, a woman alone with her coffee. Hopper, born in Nyack, New York, in 1882 (Encyclopaedia Britannica (standard reference publisher)), turned that stillness into one of the most recognizable … Read more

Most people hear ABBA’s “Waterloo” and picture four Swedish pop stars in sequins; fewer could say what the man at the piano did after the band went quiet. Here is the documented version of that second act — marriages, money, and the friendships that outlasted the band’s 1982 hiatus. Birth date: December 16, 1946 · … Read more

Few images from 1960s Hollywood are as instantly recognizable as Raquel Welch in that fur bikini — but the poster was only her opening act. She died at her Los Angeles home on February 15, 2023, at 82, leaving behind two children, a Golden Globe, and a beauty business that outlasted her film stardom; this … Read more

There’s a reason the same Dublin face keeps popping up across British and Irish television. Aaron Heffernan moved from the crime-heavy streets of Love/Hate to the comedy chaos of Brassic without losing the low-key charm that makes him easy to root for, a Dublin-born Trinity Drama graduate whose profile at Voices&Co (talent agency) only partly … Read more

Ask most people to name Rebel Wilson’s defining moment and they’ll say Pitch Perfect — but the arc behind that role is less familiar. Born Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson in Sydney, she turned early rejections into a career spanning comedy blockbusters, TV, and a health transformation she says topped 80 pounds, a figure People (celebrity … Read more

Few people carry as many conflicting caricatures as Mark Zuckerberg — the hoodie-wearing college dropout, the disciplined CEO, the “robot” meme, the father of two. The gap between those images and the documented record is wider than most fans realize: his parents were comfortable professionals, not billionaires, and the net-worth estimates on your screen shift … Read more

Some celebrities chase fame; Tara Palmer-Tomkinson seemed to trip over it — a 1990s ‘It girl’ whose friends included Prince Charles before the tabloids ever noticed her. When she died at 45 in February 2017 (BBC News (UK public broadcaster)), the first headlines reached for the wrong story. The coroner’s verdict was quieter: a perforated … Read more