C.S. Lewis died in 1963, one week before his 65th birthday.
He died on 22 November 1963 at his home, The Kilns, near Oxford. His birth date was 29 November 1898, so he would have turned 65 exactly seven days later. The date is also remembered because it coincided with the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley, both of whom died on 22 November 1963.
Lewis’s death came near the end of a long career as a literary scholar, novelist, essayist, and Christian apologist. His works continued to gain readers after his death, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, which became a major part of children’s literature and was adapted for stage, radio, television, and film.
Lewis was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford. His brother Warren died later, in 1973, and helped preserve many details of Lewis’s life through diaries and memoirs.