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Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first african american nobel peace prize winner (1904–1971).
Born August 7th, 1904 in Detroit.
Died December 10th, 1971 at 67 years old in New York City. [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