C.S. Lewis died in 1963 in Oxford, England. He died on 22 November at his home, The Kilns, after suffering from health problems in his later years.
Lewis’s death occurred on the same date as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the death of writer Aldous Huxley. Because those events drew enormous international attention, Lewis’s death received comparatively little immediate coverage despite his importance as an author and scholar.
He was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, in Oxford. Lewis had spent much of his adult life in Oxford and was also associated with Cambridge during the final decade of his academic career. His major books, including the Narnia novels, continued to gain readers after his death.