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.
Kenneth Hutchings
Hutchings was killed in action on 3 September 1916 at Ginchy in northern France during the Battle of the Somme. Hutchings was hit by an artillery shell and, according to Wisden, killed instantly. At the time of his death he was described as the most famous cricketer to have died in the Great War and the Daily Telegraph wrote that "one of the greatest cricketers has been taken from us". His name appears on the Thiepval Memorial.