Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963 · died at about 69^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About Aldous Huxley

• Aldous Huxley once taught French at Eton, where one of his pupils was Eric Blair, the future George Orwell; he was remembered as unable to keep order in class.^[1][3][4]
• Walt Disney hired Huxley in 1945 to write a script based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the script was never used.^[1][5][6]
• Huxley was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and in 1959 he turned down a knighthood without giving a reason.^[1]
• In 1911 an eye disease left Huxley practically blind for two to three years and ended his early dream of becoming a doctor.^[1]
• Huxley's grandfather was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog", who coined the word agnostic.^[1][7][8]
• News of Huxley's death, and of C. S. Lewis's, was overshadowed by the assassination of John F. Kennedy on the same day.^{[1][9][10][11][12]}
• Aldous Huxley was alive at the same time as Friedrich Engels — their lives overlapped for 1 year (1894–1895).^{[1][2][13][14]}
• Aldous Huxley shares a birthday with George Bernard Shaw: both were born on July 26.^{[1][2][15][16]}

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.^[1]

Contemporaries

Winston Churchill

69 yr overlap

Pablo Picasso

69 yr overlap

Igor Stravinsky

69 yr overlap

Coco Chanel

69 yr overlap

Georgia O'Keeffe

69 yr overlap

Charlie Chaplin

69 yr overlap

Ho Chi Minh

69 yr overlap

Agatha Christie

69 yr overlap

Dwight D. Eisenhower

69 yr overlap

Charles de Gaulle

69 yr overlap

Haile Selassie

69 yr overlap

J.R.R. Tolkien

69 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Aldous Huxley

When was Aldous Huxley born?

Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, and died on November 22, 1963.

How old was Aldous Huxley at death?

Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, and died on November 22, 1963, at age 69.

What was Aldous Huxley known for?

Aldous Huxley was known for: Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

Who was alive at the same time as Aldous Huxley?

Aldous Huxley's closest contemporary was Winston Churchill. Their lives overlapped for 69 years.