16. Albert Camus
From Jackass to a Nobel Prize winner; this is how we roll. Namely, the next person on our list is Albert Camus, a French writer most famous for his existential writing and novels such as The Stranger and The Plague. He was also a cool guy who enjoyed soccer and who actually played for a professional team.
Camus was only 46 when he died (a young age for a writer) in a car accident in France. The irony of it is that he had a train ticket in his pocket when his body was discovered, as he planned to travel by train with his wife and kids before his publisher offered him a ride.
There were later rumors about KBG being involved in his death, but his biographer always rejected such theories. You make of it what you want.