Coincidence? Yes.
I was visiting Catherine Hampton's "In Memory..." list and discovered something that I did not know.
C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
Til We Have Faces
November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963
Take a look at the death date again. Here's what Christianity Today says:
Forty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, only half of Americans are alive to remember it, and many Americans are looking away from the Kennedy's Camelot to the fairytales of another man who died that day: Clive Staples Lewis.
C.S. Lewis's death was overlooked on that November 22 in 1963, but historian Mark Summers of the University of Kentucky argues that today Lewis is more relevant to those who cannot answer the question "where were you when JFK was shot?" "In terms of how he's affected the kids of my generation and the rest, I have a feeling that C.S. Lewis may have affected them more than John Kennedy." Summers told The Louisville Courier-Journal....
I can't find record of any other famous person who died, or was born, on this day, but here are some other November 22 deaths:
1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer
1718 - Blackbeard, English pirate
1774 - Robert Clive, English general and statesman (b. 1725)
1875 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President (b. 1812)
1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1955 - Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (heart attack) (b. 1895)
1963 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (b. 1894)
1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1960)
And here are some births from November 22:
1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
1869 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
1899 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
1913 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
1940 - Terry Gilliam, American comedian and director
1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player
1950 - Steve Van Zandt, American musician
1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress
1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
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