Historical Events
- Nov 1 France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France's attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente
Heart of Darkness
Nov 13 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh
Assassination Attempt on Leopold II
Nov 15 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
Tour de France Created
Nov 20 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
- Nov 21 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
- Nov 21 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
- Nov 21 The Canadian government appoints a commission to consider revising, classifying, and consolidating the many public statutes passed over the years
Wiener Frauen
Nov 25 Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Frauen" premieres in Vienna
Der arme Heinrich
Nov 29 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Der arme Heinrich" premieres in Vienna
- Nov 30 American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang Kid Curry Logan sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Eugen Jochum, German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra, 1934-49; Bavarian Radio Symphony, 1949-61), born in Babenhausen, Augsburg, German Empire (d. 1987)
- Nov 1 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet, dramatist and novelist (The Defeat), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1943)
- Nov 2 Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author and poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), born in Felsőrácegres, Pálfa, Hungary (d. 1983)
- Nov 2 Marius Holtrop, Dutch economist and President of Netherlands Bank (DNB), 1946-67, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1988)
- Nov 3 Charles Jones, West Indian cricket batsman (4 Tests), born in Georgetown, British Guiana (d. 1959)
- Nov 4 Frank Jenks, American stage and screen actor (Colonel Flack, Zombies on Broadway), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1962)
- Nov 5 Alfred Métraux, Swiss anthropologist, born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1963)
- Nov 7 Rob van der de Bas [Barend Robberts], Dutch troubadour (Klucht of the Cow) (d. 1987)
- Nov 9 Anthony Asquith, British film director (Carrington V C (Court martial)), born in London (d. 1968)
- Nov 10 Antonio Maria Valencia, Colombian composer, born in Cali, Colombia (d. 1952)
- Nov 10 Murk Daniel Ozinga, Dutch art historian (Monuments of Curacao), born in Pernis, Netherlands (d. 1968)
- Nov 13 Gustav von Koenigswald, German-Dutch paleontologist (found Pithecanthropus erectus), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1982)
- Nov 13 Sid Stone, American comedian (Milton Berle Show), born in New York City (d. 1986)
- Nov 15 Jack Ingram, American actor (Law of the West), and stuntman, born in Frankfort, Illinois (d. 1969)
- Nov 16 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, born in Stalhille, Jabbeke, Belgium (d. 1985)
- Nov 17 Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1963 Nobel Prize for Physics), worked on the Manhattan Project, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1995)
- Nov 18 Barbara Giuranna, Italian pianist and composer, born in Palermo, Italy (d. 1998)
- Nov 18 Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels) (d. 1945)
- Nov 19 Trevor Bardette, American actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape), born in Nashville, Arkansas (d. 1977)
- Nov 20 Wolfgang Kunkel, German lawyer and law historian, born in Fürth, Germany (d. 1981)
- Nov 21 Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio broadcaster (Hockey Night in Canada), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1985)
- Nov 21 Mikhail Suslov, Soviet statesman and party ideologist, born in Shakhovskoye, Russian Empire (d. 1982)
- Nov 22 Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (Stanley Cup 1930, 31 Montreal Canadiens), born in Valleyfield, Quebec (d. 1990)
- Nov 22 Emanuel Feuermann, American cellist (Chicago Symphony), born in Kolomyja, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Kolomyia, Ukraine) (d. 1942)
- Nov 22 Ethel Smith [Goldsmith], American pop and Latin style Hammond organist ("Tico Tico", "Monkey on a String"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
- Nov 22 Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1959-69), born in London (d. 1990)
- Nov 23 Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
- Nov 23 Victor Jory, Canadian-American stage and screen actor (A Midsummer Night's Dream; Kings Row; Manhunt), born in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada (d. 1982)
Eddie Shore (1902-1985)
Nov 25 Canadian ice hockey player and NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins), born in Fort Qu'Appelle, Northwest Territories
- Nov 25 Tamara Shayne, Russian-American actress (Moma Yoelson-The Jolson Story), born in Perm, Russia (d. 1983)
- Nov 26 Alberto Morin, Puerto Rican actor (Two Mules for Sister Sara, Rio Grande), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1989)
- Nov 26 Gerrit Jan van der Veen [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1944)
- Nov 27 Giuseppe Savagnone, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy (d. 1984)
- Nov 29 Carlo Levi, Italian painter and novelist (Of Fear & Freedom), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1975)
- Nov 29 Georges Poulet, French-Belgian critic (Temps Humain), born in Chênée, Belgium (d. 1991)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 13 Evander McNair, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 82
- Nov 14 Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies
- Nov 17 Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh Methodist Social reformer, dies at 55
- Nov 22 Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German steel and arms manufacturer (Krupp AG - supplied the German Navy), dies of suspected suicide after being outed as a homosexual in Italian newspapers and in the German Social Democratic magazine Vorwärts
- Nov 22 Septimus Winner, American songwriter ("Listen To The Mockingbird"), dies at 75
- Nov 23 Walter Reed, U.S. Army physician and bacteriologist who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, dies at 51
- Nov 26 Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop, poet (Anykščių šilelis) and dialectologist, dies at 67
