- Nov 1 Joan McCracken, American stage and screen actress, dancer and comedienne (Oklahoma!; Claudia: Story of a Marriage), dies of a heart attack at 43
- Nov 2 James Thurber, American humorist, playwright, and cartoonist (Men, Women & Dogs; The Male Animal; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), dies of pneumonia after brain surgery at 66
- Nov 13 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63
- Nov 13 Wally Brown, American actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
- Nov 15 Douglas Walton, Canadian-American actor (Bad Lands), dies of a heart attack at 51
- Nov 15 Elsie Ferguson, American actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 78
- Nov 24 Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67