Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist. He was Professor of Neurology at New York University graduate School of Medicine. The 1990 movie "Awakenings" was based on his book where he was played by Robin Williams.
Sacks was born on 9 July 1933 in London, England to a Jewish family. He studied at St Paul's School, at Queen's College, Cambridge, and at Oxford University.
He addressed his homosexuality for the first time in his 2015 autobiography "On the Move: A Life".
Sacks was diagnosed with terminal uveal melanoma and liver cancer in January 2015. He died on 30 August 2015 at his home in New York City at the age of 82 from liver cancer.