British astronaut.
Born April 11th, 1955 in Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. [ref]
Died December 23rd, 2016 at 61 years old in Houston (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks