Historical Events
The Sorcerer
Nov 17 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "The Sorcerer" premieres at the Opera Comique, London
- Nov 24 English author Anna Sewell sells her manuscript "Black Beauty" to Norwich publisher for £40, the novel is published soon after
Edison's Phonograph
Nov 29 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Roger Quilter, British composer, born in Hove, Sussex, England (d. 1953)
Aga Khan III (1877-1957)
Nov 2 Shia Imam who was one of the founders of the All-India Muslim League and later President of the League of Nations (1937-38), born in Karachi, British India
- Nov 2 Claire McDowell, American actress (Big Parade), born in New York City (d. 1966)
- Nov 2 Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul, born in Mdina, Malta (d. 1933)
Victor Trumper (1877-1915)
Nov 2 Australian cricket batsman (48 Tests, top score 214; key figure foundation of rugby league in Australia), born in Sydney, NSW
- Nov 3 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, 19th and 25th President of Chile, born in Chillán, Chile (d. 1960)
- Nov 7 Henry Balfour Gardiner, English composer and musician, born in Kensington, England (d. 1950)
- Nov 9 Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet, born in Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India (d. 1938)
- Nov 9 Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician, 1st President of Italy (1948), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1959)
- Nov 9 Sergei Aleksi [Alexy], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1970)
Norman Brookes (1877-1968)
Nov 14 Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1907, 14), born in Melbourne, Victoria
- Nov 14 René de Clerq, Flemish poet and author (Emergency Horn), born in Deerlijk, Belgium (d. 1932)
- Nov 16 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England (d. 1962)
- Nov 17 Frank Calder, British born Canadian ice hockey executive (first NHL President), born in Bristol, England (d. 1943)
- Nov 18 Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1959)
- Nov 21 Louis Campbell-Tipton, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1921)
- Nov 21 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany (d. 1933)
- Nov 22 Endre Ady, Hungarian lyric poet (Még egyzer, Uj versek), born in Ermindszent, Hungary (d. 1919)
- Nov 22 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona, born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1930)
- Nov 24 Alben W. Barkley, American politician (US Representative, Senator and 35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53), born in Graves County, Kentucky (d. 1956)
- Nov 24 Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
- Nov 25 Harley Granville-Barker, English dramatist, producer (The Voysey Inheritance) and critic, born in London (d. 1946)
