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1952 – 2001Douglas Adams (1952-2001)Died 11 May 2001, aged 49Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which began as a BBC radio series in 1978 and became a bestselling series of comic science-fiction novels. He was also an early enthusiast for personal computers and an environmental campaigner. He died suddenly of a heart attack in California.