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.
Martin Amis
After Oxford, he found an entry-level job at "The Times Literary Supplement", and at the age of 27 became literary editor of the "New Statesman", where he met Christopher Hitchens, then a feature writer for "The Observer", who remained a close friend until Hitchens died, in 2011.