Leonardo said:

Dr. Oliver Sacks also died yesterday.

I had a sort of reverso crush on him(as in I became fascinated with the idea of the chap before knowing what he looked like).

When all the to do about Awakenings (the film) was happening I read about the guy and he sounded quite exciting and the sort of person I would probably have had a crush on in his earlier years as well as being utterly brilliant and the ideal brain to know in his amazing ground breaking years.

And then I saw what he actually looked like back when he was the age I was when first reading about him :

Call me shallow if you wish but this guy had it all. Mind, Heart and easy on the eye... silly stuff I know.

But it's hard not to fall a bit in love with someone who faces terminal illness with such grace and eloquence.