C.S. Lewis was 64 when he died in 1963.
Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 and died on 22 November 1963, exactly one week before his sixty-fifth birthday. He died at his home, The Kilns, near Oxford, after years of declining health.
His death occurred on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and that writer Aldous Huxley died. Because all three deaths occurred on 22 November 1963, the date is especially notable in twentieth-century cultural history.
Some references describe Lewis as dying at 65 because of rounding or because they overlook that his birthday had not yet arrived that year. The precise age, calculated from 29 November 1898 to 22 November 1963, was 64.