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Famous People Who Died in November 1931

  • Nov 2 Arthur James Cook, British trade union leader (coal miners), dies of cancer at 47
  • Nov 2 Henry Musgrove, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test 1885), dies at 72
  • Nov 3 Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
  • Nov 4 Buddy Bolden, African-American early jazz musician, dies at 54

Jack Chesbro (1874-1931)

Nov 6 American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB wins leader 1902, 04 [41 wins], NY Highlanders), dies of a heart attack at 57

  • Nov 11 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
  • Nov 15 C. A. J. van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher, dies at 68
  • Nov 17 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian composer (Gergana), dies at 50
  • Nov 17 Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature, dies at 77
  • Nov 17 John Paulus Lotsy, Dutch botanist and geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
  • Nov 19 Frederic Cliffe, English composer, dies at 74
  • Nov 19 Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet, dies in a plane crash at 34
  • Nov 23 Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor and pianist, dies at 46
  • Nov 27 Lya De Putti [Amália Putti], Hungarian silent film actress, known for portraying vamp characters, dies at 34
  • Nov 30 John Hyatt Brewer, American composer, dies at 75
  • Nov 30 Marc Delmas, French composer, chiefly of stage and choral works, and musicologist, dies at 46