C.S. Lewis died in 1963, on 22 November—the same date as President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Lewis died at his home, The Kilns, near Oxford, shortly before his sixty-fifth birthday.
Lewis had suffered declining health, including heart problems and kidney disease. His death received less immediate international attention because Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on the same day. The date is therefore a notable coincidence in twentieth-century cultural history, although the two events occurred in different countries and circumstances.
Lewis was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford. His brother Warren, known as Warnie, later helped preserve and publish biographical material about him. Lewis’s major works continued to circulate widely after his death, including The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters.