The Deaths of Two Authors

There are numerous instances of well-known people whose passing went unnoticed because it occurred on the same day as someone even more well-known than they were. However, in this instance, there were actually two British authors that were overshadowed, not just one.

The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series was written by C.S. Lewis, an academic at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Aldous Huxley, whose most well-known work is the dystopian sci-fi classic Brave New World, was a prolific writer who produced approximately 50 works and was nominated nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Both men passed away on November 22, 1963—Huxley from cancer and Lewis from kidney failure—but there was hardly any press mention of their deaths. They died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, earning them the title of "champions of badly timed death," according to the New York magazine.

• Date:November 22, 1963