- Nov 2 Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
- Nov 3 Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
- Nov 5 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912), dies at 71
- Nov 6 Boy Ecury [Segundo Jorge Adelberto Ecury], Dutch Resistance fighter in World War II, executed by a German firing squad at 22
- Nov 6 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
- Nov 6 Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, Anglo-Irish politician, British prefect (Middle-East), assassinated by Jewish terrorists at 64
- Nov 7 Richard Sorge, German spy for the Soviet Union in Tokyo during World War II, hanged in Tokyo at 49
- Nov 8 Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born fighter pilot ace (258 aerial victories for Luftwaffe), dies in a plane crash at 23
- Nov 9 Frank Marshall, American chess player (US Champion 1909-36), dies at 67
- Nov 11 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch researcher and co-discoverer of vitamin B1 (thiamine), dies at 79
- Nov 12 Edgar Stillman Kelley, American composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
- Nov 12 George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
- Nov 12 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician, journal editor (Mathematische Annalen, 1906-38) and university professor, dies in Theresienstadt concentration camp at 68
- Nov 12 Roy Agnew, Australian composer (Sonata Ballade), dies at 51
- Nov 13 Paul Graener, German Romantic composer, dies at 72
- Nov 13 Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (21st Premier of the Republic of China 1932-35), dies at61
- Nov 14 Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, dies at 71
- Nov 15 Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
- Nov 16 Charles Kelleway, Australian cricket all-rounder (26 Tests, 3 x 100s, 52 wickets, 24 catches), dies at 58
- Nov 17 Archie MacLaren, English cricket batsman and captain (35 Tests; 424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895), dies at 72
- Nov 17 Johan Hermanus Doorn, Dutch journalist and resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper), dies at 34
- Nov 20 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21
- Nov 22 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist, cosmologist and mathematician (stars), dies at 61
- Nov 22 George Clausen, English painter, dies at 92
- Nov 24 EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies
- Nov 24 Václav Štěpán, Czech pianist and composer, dies at 54
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866-1944)
Nov 25 American federal judge (1905-22), Baseball HOF executive and 1st MLB Commissioner (1920-44), dies at 78
Albert B. Fall (1861-1944)
Nov 30 American Senator (R-New Mexico 1912-21) and US Secretary of the Interior (1921-23), convicted for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal, dies at 83
- Nov 30 Antoine Mariotte, French composer (Paysage maritime), dies at 68
- Nov 30 Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), dies at 79
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