English-American neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks was BOTD in 1933. Born and raised in London, he was educated at private schools, and studied physiology at Oxford University, following his father into the medical profession in 1958. After working at hospitals in London and Birmingham, he moved to San Francisco in 1961 to work at Mount Zion Hospital, immersing himself in the emerging queer and countercultural scene.In 1965, he relocated to New York, becoming a clinical professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He became (in)famous for his work with a group of patients at a charity hospital in the Bronx whom he briefly brought out of waking comas with experimental drugs, described in his 1973 book Awakenings. He became an unlikely bestselling author with his 1984 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, describing a series of neurological case studies with wit and compassion, though some critics accused him of peddling a freak show for public entertainment. The 1990 film of Awakenings, starring Robin Williams as a heterosexualised version of Sacks, brought him and his work to wider public attention. His subsequent writings explored human adaption to a range of disabilities including deafness, autism, colour blindness, epilepsy and Tourette’s Syndrome. In his 2015 memoir On the Move, he revealed his homosexuality, describing himself as celibate for 35 years. In 2008, Sacks began a relationship with writer Bill Hayes, remaining together until his death in 2015, aged 82. His final essay collection, The River of Consciousness, was published posthumously in 2017.