1964 Ian Fleming, age 56 – British author (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, James Bond books) He became the first graduate of the Special 25 training school for spies in Port Hope, Ontario. During the Second World War he worked in naval intelligence, and was a journalist for Reuters and the London Times, stationed in Moscow for both. All thirteen of his Bond books were filmed. He died of a heart attack, in England


I've read his complete works. The early 007 books and the movies were pretty close. By the time they got to the Roger Moore movies they didn't resemble the original books very much. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was pretty close.