Which U.S. president died on the same day as C.S. Lewis in 1963?

John F. Kennedy died on the same day as C.S. Lewis: 22 November 1963.

Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on that date. Lewis died later the same day at his home, The Kilns, near Oxford, after years of declining health. He was 64 years old.

The coincidence is often remembered because Kennedy was a sitting U.S. president and his assassination dominated international news. Lewis’s death received much less immediate attention, and some newspapers did not report it prominently at first.

The date can be confused with the date of Lewis’s funeral or with the later publication of books about him. Lewis was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, on 26 November 1963. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on 25 November.