- Nov 1 Ray Pohlman, American session upright and electric bass guitarist and arranger (The Wrecking Crew), and jazz guitarist, dies of heart failure at 60
Mary Martin (1913-1990)
Nov 3 American actress (Peter Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom, dies of cancer at 76
- Nov 3 Sashadhar Mukherjee, Indian film producer (Jagrit), dies at 81
- Nov 3 Valerie French, British actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia at 62
- Nov 5 Bobby Scott, American composer, arranger and jazz singer ("He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"), dies of cancer at 53
- Nov 5 Herbert Berghof, Austrian actor (Belarus File, Harry and Tonto, Target), dies of heart failure at 81
- Nov 5 Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1959-69), dies at 87
- Nov 6 Will Kuluva, American actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
- Nov 7 Josephine Wilson, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
- Nov 7 Lawrence Durrell, Indian-British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet), dies of a stroke at 78
- Nov 8 Anya Seton, American author (Katherine), dies at 86
- Nov 8 Grampy Davis, American actor, dies of a heart attack at 87
- Nov 10 Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and electrical engineer, dies at 76
- Nov 10 Ronnie Dyson, American stage actor (Hair - "Aquarius"; Salvation), and soul singer ("(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?"; "I Don't Wanna Cry"), dies of heart failure at 40
- Nov 11 Alexis Minotis [Alexandros Minotakis], Greek actor (The Merchant of Venice; King Lear), dies at 90
- Nov 11 Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer, dies at 81
- Nov 11 Lisa Kirk, American Broadway singer and actress (Kiss Me Kate), dies of lung cancer at 65
- Nov 12 Dave Willock, American actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
- Nov 12 Eve Arden [Eunice Quedens], American stage and screen actress (Stage Door; Our Miss Brooks; The Mothers-In-Law; Grease), dies at 82
- Nov 12 Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies
- Nov 12 Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, assassinated at 64
- Nov 12 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet and political activist, dies at 81 [1]
- Nov 13 Charlie Carpenter, dies at 77
- Nov 14 Adolf Rudnicki [Aron Hirschhorn], Polish writer (Niekochana), dies at 78
- Nov 14 K L Poll, journalist/author, dies
- Nov 14 Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, critic and spy (Observer of Life), dies at 87
- Nov 14 Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21
- Nov 15 Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
- Nov 15 Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
Robert Hofstadter (1915-1990)
Nov 17 American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
- Nov 18 Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
- Nov 19 Georgy Flyorov, Soviet-Russian physicist (spontaneous fission, Soviet atomic bomb project), dies at 77
- Nov 19 Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (best known for his leadership in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War), dies at 89
- Nov 21 Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
- Nov 23 Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37
- Nov 23 Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam (1952-53), dies
- Nov 23 Renate Rubinstein, German-Dutch author and columnist (Tamar), dies at 61
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Nov 23 British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG), dies at 74
- Nov 24 Bulent Arel, Turkish-born electronic composer, dies at 72
Dodie Smith (1896-1990)
Nov 24 English novelist and playwright (101 Dalmatians), dies at 94
- Nov 24 Fred Shero, Canadian NHL hockey HOF coach, 1971-81 (Stanley Cup, 1974, 1975 - Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers), and general manager (Rangers), dies at 65
- Nov 24 Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
- Nov 24 Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer during the Great Depression, dies at 80
- Nov 24 Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan
- Nov 25 Bill Vukovich III, American Indy 500 driver, killed in a crash during practice at 27
- Nov 26 Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher, dies at 94
- Nov 27 David White, American actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Nov 28 Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
- Nov 30 Hilde Spiel, Austrian writer, dies at 78
- Nov 30 Norman Cousins, American editor (Saturday Review) and peace activist, dies at 75
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