Martin Gardner, who quoted from John Shade in his The Ambidextrous Universe (1964) and was in turn referred to as an invented philosopher, "Martin Gardiner," in Ada, died on May 22, 2010.
 
Nabokov, among others, is mentioned here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24gardner.html. 
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