- Nov 1 Charlie Caldwell, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Williams, Princeton), dies at 56
- Nov 2 Ted Meredith, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m in world record 1:51.9s 1912), dies at 64
- Nov 3 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychoanalyst (coined term "sexual revolution", worked with Freud), dies at 60
- Nov 4 Joseph Canteloube, French composer and musicologist (collected French folksongs), dies at 78
- Nov 4 Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
- Nov 7 Roy Worters, Canadian Hockey HOF goaltender (Hart Memorial Trophy 1929; Vezina Trophy 1931; NY Americans), dies at 57
- Nov 9 Ettore Pozzoli, Italian classical pianist and composer, dies at 84
- Nov 9 Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (1st recognised world long jump record 1901), dies at 85
- Nov 12 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78
- Nov 13 Antonin Zapotocky, Czech communist politician (President of Czechoslovakia 1953-57), dies in office at 72
- Nov 14 Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African painter, dies at 71
- Nov 17 Cora Witherspoon, American actress (Quality Street; The Bank Dick), dies at 67
- Nov 20 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist, dies at 82
- Nov 20 Weldon Hart, American composer, commits suicide at 46
- Nov 21 Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
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Nov 24 Mexican painter (En el Arsenal) and husband of Frida Kahlo, dies at 70
- Nov 26 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies at 80
- Nov 26 Billy Bevan, Australian actor (Terror by Night, White Sin), dies at 70
- Nov 27 Margo Scharten-Antink, Dutch writer (Catherina, Sprotje), dies at 88
- Nov 29 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian-American composer (Violanta; The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at 60
- Nov 30 Beniamino Gigli, Italian lyric tenor (La Gioconde - "Enzo"; Metropolitan Opera, 1920-32),dies of pneumonia at 67
- Nov 30 Dick McPartland, American jazz guitarist, dies at 52
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