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August 31, 2015

Renowned Neurologist Oliver Sacks Dies at 82 
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The renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has died at the age of
82. Sacks wrote the best-selling book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for
a Hat," among other works. He announced in February he was in the late
stages of terminal cancer after a melanoma in his eye spread to his
liver. He died at home in Manhattan on Sunday.

 

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