- Nov 6 Peter Matz, American musician and orchestra leader (Hullabaloo; The Carol Burnett Show), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
- Nov 10 Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpeter, and composer of classical music and film scores ("The Mission"; "Cinema Paradiso"; "The Hateful Eight"), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2020) [1]
- Nov 11 Arthur Cunningham, American composer, born in Piermont, New York (d. 1997)
- Nov 11 Ernestine Anderson, American jazz vocalist and blues singer, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
- Nov 13 Hampton Hawes, American jazz pianist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1977)
- Nov 14 Leopoldine "Leonie" Rysanek, Austrian dramatic soprano (Vienna State Opera 1954-96; Metropolitan Opera, 1959-96), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1998)
- Nov 15 C. W. McCall [William Dale Fries, Jr.], American country singer ("Convoy"), born in Audubon, Iowa (d. 2022)
- Nov 15 Seldon Powell, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist, born in Lawrenceville, Virginia (d. 1997)
- Nov 17 John Sangster, Australian jazz composer (The Hobbit Suite), born in Sandringham, Australia (d. 1995)
- Nov 18 Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer, born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 1994)
- Nov 18 Sheila Jordan (née Dawson), American jazz singer and songwriter, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Nov 19 Don Hunstein, American photographer of musicians, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2017)
- Nov 23 Jakob Jež, Slovenian composer (Klas pri klasu (Ear by Ear)), and pedagogue, born in Boštanj, Slovenia (d. 2022)
- Nov 23 Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
- Nov 25 Etta Jones, American jazz singer ("Don't Go to Strangers"; "Save Your Love for Me"), born in Aiken, South Carolina (d. 2001)
- Nov 25 James "Jimmy" Johnson, American gospel and blues singer and guitarist, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi (d. 2022) [1]
- Nov 27 Walter Klien, Austrian pianist, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1991)
- Nov 28 Jan Fotek, Polish composer (Musica Cromatica), born in Czerwińsk on the Vistula, Poland (d. 2015)
- Nov 30 Elmira Nazirova, Azerbaijani-Israeli classical pianist, composer, and educator, born in Baku, USSR (d. 2014)
About November 1928
How Old? 95 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: Yes
Chinese Zodiac: Dragon
Star Signs: Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21), Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21)
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