- Nov 4 Stig Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
- Nov 5 Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader, dies at 46
- Nov 10 Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher, dies at 84
- Nov 10 Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
- Nov 11 J. Rosamond Johnson, American composer ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), dies at 81
- Nov 13 Fay Baker, actress (Sorority Girl), dies at 60
- Nov 13 Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German general (led the "blitzkrieg", 1st Panzer Group on Eastern Front), dies in a Russian prison at 73
Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954)
Nov 15 American actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), dies at 76
- Nov 16 Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist, dies at 80
- Nov 19 Walter Bartley Wilson, English founding member of Cardiff City F.C., dies at 84
- Nov 20 Clyde Cessna, American aviator and airplane manufacturer, dies at 74
- Nov 21 Karol Rathaus, German-Austrian composer, dies at 59
- Nov 21 Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 69
- Nov 22 Andrej J. Vysjinski, Russian lawyer and UN ambassador, dies at 70
- Nov 22 Moroni Olsen, American actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White), dies at 65
- Nov 22 Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
- Nov 26 Bill Doak, American baseball pitcher (NL ERA leader 1914, 21; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 63
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
Nov 28 Italian-American nuclear physicist, gone fission, fermium (Nobel Prize 1938), dies of stomach cancer at 53
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