Historical Events
Cosmic Rays Discovery
Nov 9 Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
- Nov 11 American scientist Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
- Nov 11 City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I
- Nov 11 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
Nov 11 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session at Okeh Records in Chicago
- Nov 11 Night of Kersten - Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
- Nov 12 US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
- Nov 14 Sidney Howard's stage drama "They Knew What They Wanted", closes at the Klaw Theatre, NYC; after 414 performances and a Pulitzer Prize win
- Nov 16 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
- Nov 16 Philip Barry's play "In a Garden" premieres in NYC
Red Grange Signs
Nov 21 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
- Nov 24 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
- Nov 24 Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
- Nov 25 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
- Nov 26 Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
- Nov 27 German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
Aristide Briand
Nov 28 7th French government of Aristide Briand sworn-in
- Nov 28 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee
Georges Vezina
Nov 28 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies 4 months later of TB
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur), born in Neuss, Germany (d. 2018)
Doris Roberts (1925-2016)
Nov 4 American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond), born in St Louis, Missouri
- Nov 4 Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2018)
- Nov 4 Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker (Titash Ekti Nadir Naam), born in Dhaka, East Bengal (d. 1976)
- Nov 6 Dirk de Vroome, Dutch campaigner and Limbourg activist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1986)
- Nov 9 Bill Bruton, American baseball outfielder (NL stolen bases leader 1953-55 Milwaukee Braves), born in Penola, Alabama (d. 1995)
- Nov 9 Sir Alistair Horne, British historian and journalist (A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962), born in London (d. 2017)
Richard Burton (1925-1984)
Nov 10 Welsh Tony and BAFTA Award-winning stage and screen actor (Cleopatra: Camelot; Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and fifth and sixth husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1964-74, 1975-76), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales
- Nov 11 John Guillermin, British film director (The Towering Inferno), born in London (d. 2015)
Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)
Nov 11 American comedian (The Jonathan Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), born in Dayton, Ohio
- Nov 11 June Whitfield, English comedian (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous), born in London, England (d. 2018)
- Nov 13 Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author (Vroeger is dood), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2021)
- Nov 15 Howard Baker, American politician (Senator-R-Tennessee 1967-85), Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, born in Huntsville, Tennessee (d. 2014)
- Nov 15 Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (Berkshire Symphonies; Les Cloches des Clochards), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Nov 15 Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
- Nov 16 Michel Jouvet, French neuroscientist and medical researcher who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement (REM sleep), born in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France (d. 2017)
- Nov 17 Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor, born in Schenectady, New York (d. 2010)
- Nov 17 Colin Mitchell, British army officer (Battle of Crater during Arden uprising), born in Croyden, England (d. 1996)
- Nov 17 Libby Newman, American artist, born in Rockland, Delaware (d. 2023)
Rock Hudson (1925-1985)
Nov 17 American actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, Ice Station Zebra), born in Winnetka, Illinois
- Nov 18 Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), born in Fulham, London (d. 1997)
- Nov 18 William Mayer, American composer (A Death in the Family; Brief Candle; Octagon), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
- Nov 18 Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1992)
- Nov 19 Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust), born in Poznań (d. 2017)
- Nov 20 June Christy [Shirley Luster], American jazz singer ("Tampico"; "Something Cool"), born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1990)
- Nov 20 Kaye Ballard, American stage and screen actress, comedienne, (Mothers-in-Law - "Kaye"), and singer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2019)
- Nov 20 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet), born in Moscow (d. 2015)
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
Nov 20 American politician (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), born in Brookline, Massachusetts
- Nov 21 Poncke Princen, Dutch anti-Nazi fighter, colonial soldier and human rights activist, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2002)
- Nov 22 Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and proponent of jazz-classical "third stream" (Visitation; Of Reminiscences and Reflections - Pulitzer Prize, 1994), born in Queens, New York (d. 2015)
- Nov 23 Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), born in New York City (d. 2020)
- Nov 24 Alun Owen, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (The Rise Affair, A Hard Day's Night), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1994)
- Nov 24 Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2011)
- Nov 24 William F. Buckley Jr, American conservative author and commentator (National Review, Firing Line), born in New York City (d. 2008)
- Nov 25 Jose Napoleon Duarte, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador (1984-89), born in Santa Ana, El Salvador (d. 1990)
- Nov 26 Eugene Istomin, American pianist (Leventritt Award-1943), born in New York City (d. 2003)
Gregorio Álvarez (1925-2016)
Nov 26 Uruguayan dictator and President of Uruguay (1981-85), born in Montevideo, Uruguay [1]
- Nov 27 Ernie Wise [Wiseman], English comedian (Morecambe & Wise), born in Bramley, England (d. 1999)
- Nov 27 John Maddox, British science writer and editor (Nature), born in Penllergaer, Wales (d. 2009)
- Nov 27 Marshall Thompson, American actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari), born in Peoria, Illinois (d. 1992)
- Nov 27 Michael Tolan, American actor (Nurses, Senator), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2011)
- Nov 28 Aurelio de la Vega, Cuban-American composer (Adiós; Variación del Recuerdo), educator (California State University, 1959-92), and poet, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2022)
- Nov 28 József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (Budapest Honvéd), born in Kispest, Hungary (d. 1978)
- Nov 28 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 1986)
- Nov 29 Chet Leaming, American stage and screen actor, born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1992)
- Nov 29 Ernst Happel, Austrian soccer player, 1943-59 (Rapid Wien), and coach, 1962-92 (Feyenoord; Club Brugge; Hamburger SV, and 8 others), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1992)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Max Linder [Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle], French actor, comic and director (Seven Years Bad Luck: Max Prend un Bain), commits suicide at 41
- Nov 2 Antonius J. Derkinderen, Dutch painter and etcher, dies at 65
- Nov 6 Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam (1916-25), dies of TB at 40
- Nov 9 Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer, dies at 71
- Nov 12 Roman Statkowski, Polish composer, dies at 65
- Nov 14 Agnes Zimmermann, German composer, dies at 78
- Nov 20 Alexandra, Danish princess and Queen of Great Britain, consort to Edward VII, dies at 80
- Nov 21 Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (US Open 1893-94, 1896-97), dies at 52
- Nov 26 Johannes Haarklou, Norwegian organist, composer, and educator, dies at 78
- Nov 27 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor and Cubist painter, dies of tuberculosis at 40
- Nov 29 Karl Flodin, Finnish composer, dies at 67
