Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens died of hospital-acquired pneumonia on 15 December 2011 in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, aged 62. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to medical research. "Mortality", a collection of seven of Hitchen's "Vanity Fair" essays about his illness, was published posthumously in September 2012.
Reginald Hine
In 1907 he and two others, the Hitchin photographer Thomas William Latchmore (1882-1946) and F. L. Griggs, took a camera to Minsden Chapel with the intention of photographing the ghost of a monk who it was believed had been murdered there and whose spirit was said to emerge from the stone walls of the ruined chapel. Hine claimed that they had been successful and published the resulting photograph in his "The History of Hitchin". The photograph is now accepted as having been a practical joke at best, and a hoax at worst, but Hine never admitted this, and its inclusion in what was purported to be a work of serious history is questionable. The shrouded figure is almost certainly that of Hine.