Historical Events
- Nov 1 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- Nov 2 First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
- Nov 6 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
- Nov 6 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
- Nov 8 An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Italian liner 'Ancona' without warning, killing over 200 people
- Nov 12 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago in the Western Pacific
- Nov 12 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Demand for Independence
Nov 14 Tomáš Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
- Nov 20 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tigers win 2nd title; beat Toronto Rowing Association, 13-7
- Nov 23 On the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, the Battle of Ctesiphon between Allied and Turkish forces enters its second day
- Nov 24 Serbian leader flees to Albania
- Nov 29 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California
- Nov 30 St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Michael Denison, English actor (Importance of Being Ernest), born in York, England (d. 1988)
- Nov 2 Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (Little Carib Theatre), born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (d. 2000)
- Nov 2 Douglas Lilburn, New Zealand composer (A Song Of Islands), and educator (Victoria University, 1949-80), born in Whanganui, New Zealand (d. 2001)
- Nov 2 Sidney Luft, American movie director, born in New York City (d. 2005)
- Nov 4 Alistair Cameron Crombie, Australian historian of science, born in Brisbane, Australia (d. 1996)
- Nov 4 Court Benson, Canadian-American actor and broadcaster, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1995)
- Nov 4 Lloyd James Austin, Australian linguist and literary scholar, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1994)
- Nov 5 Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), born in New York City (d. 2003)
- Nov 7 Philip Morrison, American physicist, born in Somerville, New Jersey (d. 2005)
- Nov 9 André François, Hungarian-French cartoonist, born in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (d. 2005)
- Nov 9 Sargent Shriver, American politician and activist (Peace Corps), born in Westminster, Maryland (d. 2011)
- Nov 11 Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, born in Szczecin, Poland (d. 1995)
- Nov 11 William Proxmire, American politician (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88), born in Lake Forest, Illinois (d. 2005)
- Nov 12 Roland Barthes, French writer (Mythologies), literary critic (The Death of the Author), and academic theorist, born in Cherbourg, Normandy, France (d. 1980)
- Nov 13 Howard Cooke, Governor-General of Jamaica (1991-2006), born in Goodwill, St. James, Jamaica (d. 2014)
- Nov 14 Edward Digby Baltzell, American Ivy League sociologist (coined term WASP), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
- Nov 14 Mabel Fairbanks, Seminole-African American figure skater and coach (US Figure Skating Hall of Fame), born in Florida Everglades (d. 2001) [1]
- Nov 14 Martha Tilton, American big band singer (Benny Goodman; Jimmy Dorsey), born in Corpus Christi, Texas (d. 2006) [1]
- Nov 15 Bea Barrett, American golfer (Western Open 1938), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2002)
- Nov 17 (Clarence) "Shorty" Cherock, American swing jazz and big band trumpeter (Jimmy Dorsey; Gene Krupa; Nelson Riddle), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1980)
- Nov 18 Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and umpire, born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 2004)
- Nov 19 Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 1994)
Hu Yaobang (1915-1989)
Nov 20 Chinese communist official and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1982-87), born in Liuyang, Hunan, Republic of China
- Nov 20 Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director (Matatabi, Money Talks), born in Ise, Mie, Japan (d. 2008)
- Nov 23 Ellen Drew [Esther Loretta Ray], American actress (Isle of Dead, Christmas in July), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2003)
- Nov 23 John Dehner [Forkum], American actor (The Right Stuff, Big Hawaii, Bare Essence), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 1992)
- Nov 23 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala (1966-70), born in Guatemala City (d. 1996)
Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006)
Nov 25 Chilean general and dictator of Chile (1973-90), born in Valparaíso, Chile
- Nov 25 Ron Hamence, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman post-WWII), born in Hindmarsh, Australia (d. 2010)
- Nov 26 Earl Wild, American composer and pianist (Caesar's Hour, 1952-56; NBC Symphony, 1937-44), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
- Nov 26 Herbert Joeks [Herman Hugten], Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo de clown), born in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Nov 27 Caro van Eyck [Gerarda Taytelbaum], Dutch actress (De stille Kracht, Medea), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 1979)
- Nov 27 Victor Alessandro, American orchestral conductor (Oklahoma City; San Antonio), born in Waco, Texas (d. 1976)
- Nov 28 Evald Okas, Estonian painter, born in Talinn, Estonia (d. 2011)
- Nov 28 Pamela Harrison, English pianist and composer, born in Orpington, England (d. 1990)
- Nov 29 Billy Strayhorn, American pianist, arranger, and composer (Duke Ellington Orchestra - "Take The 'A' Train"), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1967)
- Nov 29 Earl W. Sutherland, American pharmacologist (1971 Nobel Prize Medicine or Physiology 1971 - cyclic AMP), born in Burlingame, Kansas (d. 1974)
- Nov 30 (Walter) "Brownie" McGhee, American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 1996)
- Nov 30 Angier Biddle Duke, American diplomat and the youngest American ambassador in history, born in New York City (d. 1995)
- Nov 30 Henry Taube, Canadian-born American chemist (Nobel Prize 1983 - mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions), born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan (d. 2005)
- Nov 30 Robert Lax, American poet (The Circus of the Sun; The Peacemaker's Handbook), born in Olean, New York (d. 2000)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 2 Isaac Rice, German-American businessman (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium, Electric Boat Company), dies at 65
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Nov 14 American education pioneer and 1st African American on a US stamp, dies at 59
- Nov 14 Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, composer, and teacher (Contes de Jeunesse), dies at 85
- Nov 19 Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund], Swedish-American labor activist and protest songwriter ("The Preacher and the Slave"; "There Is Power in a Union"), executed at Sugar House Prison in Salt Lake City, Utah for murder at 36
- Nov 19 Solomon Schechter, Moldavian-American Talmudic scholar and rabbi, dies at about 64
- Nov 27 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, Ukrainian-Russian composer, dies at 54
- Nov 28 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author and critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
- Nov 28 Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
