C.S. Lewis died in 1963, the same year as John F. Kennedy.
Lewis died at his home, The Kilns, near Oxford, on 22 November 1963. He was 64 years old. Kennedy, the president of the United States, was assassinated on that same date in Dallas, Texas. The coincidence received relatively little immediate attention because Kennedy’s death dominated international news coverage.
Lewis’s death date also fell on the same day as the deaths of writer Aldous Huxley and statesman Adlai Stevenson. The three deaths occurred on 22 November 1963, making the date unusually notable in twentieth-century cultural and political history.
Lewis had suffered from health problems, including kidney failure, in the period before his death. He was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford. His gravestone includes a quotation from Shakespeare’s King Lear, while his brother Warren later helped preserve important information about his life and writings.