Oliver Sacks

Does Oliver Sacks Dead or Alive?

As per our current Database, Oliver Sacks is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 Oliver Sacks - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Oliver Sacks is 91 years, 5 months and 13 days old. Oliver Sacks will celebrate 92rd birthday on a Wednesday 9th of July 2025. Below we countdown to Oliver Sacks upcoming birthday.

🌙 Zodiac

Oliver Sacks’s zodiac sign is Cancer. According to astrologers, the sign of Cancer belongs to the element of Water, just like Scorpio and Pisces. Guided by emotion and their heart, they could have a hard time blending into the world around them. Being ruled by the Moon, phases of the lunar cycle deepen their internal mysteries and create fleeting emotional patterns that are beyond their control. As children, they don't have enough coping and defensive mechanisms for the outer world, and have to be approached with care and understanding, for that is what they give in return.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Oliver Sacks was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.

About

Author and neurologist whose bestselling popular science books include Musicophilia, An Anthropologist on Mars, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

Before Fame

He earned his medical degree from Oxford University and later opened a neurology practice in New York City.

Trivia

He taught neurology and psychiatry at the New York University and Columbia University Medical Centers.

Family Life

He was born to Jewish parents in London, England. A shy man afflicted with prosopagnosia -- a neurological inability to recognize faces -- he remained a bachelor for many years.

Associated With

His popular book Awakenings became the basis for an award-winning 1990 film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.

Oliver Sacks trend