Historical Events
Murder in the Cathedral
Nov 1 T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London
- Nov 3 George II returns to Greece after 12 years and regains monarchy
- Nov 3 Korean runner Sohn Kee-chung sets new men's marathon world record, 2:26:42 in Tokyo, Japan
- Nov 3 Philadelphia Eagles beat Boston Redskins, 7-6 at Fenway Park; respective quarterbacks combine to throw an NFL record 11 interceptions
- Nov 5 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man
- Nov 5 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
- Nov 6 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
Joseph Stalin
Nov 7 Addressing a meeting of Stakhanovites, Joseph Stalin utters his famous phrase "life has become better"
Mutiny on the Bounty
Nov 8 "Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
- Nov 9 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
- Nov 11 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota
- Nov 12 Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
- Nov 13 Anti-British riots in Egypt
- Nov 14 Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship
- Nov 15 "A Night at the Opera", comedy film directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
- Nov 15 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
Anything Goes
Nov 16 Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 420 performances
Jumbo
Nov 16 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 21 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura" premieres in Paris
- Nov 22 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
- Nov 24 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
- Nov 25 International Institute for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
Michael Joseph Savage
Nov 29 Michael Joseph Savage becomes the first Labour party Prime Minister of New Zealand
Schrödinger's cat
Nov 29 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
Famous Birthdays
Charles Koch (88 years old)
Nov 1 American businessman and philanthropist (Koch Industries billionaire), born in Wichita, Kansas
- Nov 1 Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic, born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (d. 2003)
Gary Player (88 years old)
Nov 1 South African golfer (9-time major title winner), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Nov 2 Mohammad Munaf, Pakistan cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 11 wickets; Karachi, Sind), born in Mumbai, India (d. 2020)
- Nov 4 Elgar Howarth, English conductor and composer, born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England
- Nov 5 Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novelist (Confessions), born in Lambeth, London (d. 2015)
- Nov 5 Dick Davalos, American actor (Jeff-The Americans), born in The Bronx, New York
- Nov 5 Jerry Amper Dadap, Filippino guitarist and composer, born in Hinunangan, Southern Leyte
- Nov 5 Lester Piggott, English jockey (11 x British flat racing C'ship Jockey; record 9 x Epsom Derby; 30 x British Classic Race wins), born in Wantage, Berkshire, England (d. 2022)
- Nov 5 Nicholas Maw, British composer, born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (d. 2009)
- Nov 7 Willibrordus S. Rendra, Indonesian poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina), born in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia (d. 2009)
Alain Delon (88 years old)
Nov 8 French-Swiss stage and screen actor (Purple Noon; Le Samouraï; Monsieur Klein), filmmaker, and pop singer, born in Sceaux, France
- Nov 8 Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Villahermosa, Colombia (d. 2008)
- Nov 9 Bob Gibson, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NL Cy Young Award 1968, 70; NL MVP 1968; 9 x MLB All Star; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2020)
- Nov 10 Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
- Nov 10 Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist, born in Moscow, Russian SFSR
- Nov 10 Pippa Scott, American actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky), born in Los Angeles, California
- Nov 11 Birgitta "Bibi" Andersson, Swedish actress (Persona, Wild Strawberries), born in Kungsholmen, Stockholms län, Sweden (d. 2019)
- Nov 12 (Isiah Terry) "Buzzy" Johnson, American R&B singer (Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes For You"), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Nov 13 George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, born in The East End, Co. London
- Nov 13 Michael Getler, American journalist and 1st ombudsman appointed by a US broadcasting network (PBS), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2018)
- Nov 13 Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, born in Ballinamore, County Leitrim (d. 1995)
- Nov 13 Tom Atkins, American actor (Escape from New York), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Nov 14 Don Stewart, actor (Guiding Light)
- Nov 14 Gennadi Aleksandrovich Dolgopolov, cosmonaut
- Nov 14 Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-99), born in Amman, Jordan (d. 1999)
- Nov 14 Jakusho Kwong, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, born in Santa Rosa, California
- Nov 15 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman
- Nov 15 Jerry Douglas, American director and writer (Grabby Awards Hall of Fame), born in Des Moines, Iowa
- Nov 15 Pete Welding, American music writer (Down Beat), musicologist (Testament Records), and jazz and blues record producer (Doug Quattlebaum), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
- Nov 16 Elizabeth Drew, American journalist (Politics & Money: The Road to Corruption), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Nov 16 France-Albert René, 2nd President of Seychelles (1977-2004), born in Victoria, Crown Colony of Seychelles (d. 2019)
- Nov 17 Anton Sailer, Austrian skier (Olympic-3 golds-1956)
- Nov 17 Imrat Khan, Indian sitar and surbahar player and composer, born in Calcutta, British India (d. 2018)
- Nov 17 Roswell Rudd, American free-jazz trombonist (Archie Shepp) and avant-garde composer (New York Art Quartet), born in Sharon, Connecticut (d. 2017)
- Nov 17 Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (Olympic gold Downhill, Giant slalom, Slalom 1956; 7 x World C'ship gold), born in Kitzbühel, Austria (d. 2009)
- Nov 18 Pervis Staples, American gospel vocalist (The Staple Singers -"Uncloudy Day"), born in Drew, Mississippi (d. 2021)
- Nov 18 Rodney Hall, Australian author
- Nov 18 Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
Jack Welch (1935-2020)
Nov 19 American businessman and CEO of General Electric (GE), born in Salem, Massachusetts
- Nov 19 Niall Brophy, Irish rugby union wing (20 Tests Ireland, 2 British & Irish Lions; London Irish RFC, Barbarian FC, Leinster RFC), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2023)
- Nov 19 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
- Nov 21 Fairuz [Nouhad Haddad], Lebanese singer (Behebak Ya Libnan), born in Zuqaq al-Blat, Beirut, State of Greater Lebanon
- Nov 21 Robert Drivas [Choromokos], American stage and screen actor (Cool Hand Luke; Illustrated Man; Our Private World), and theater director, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1986)
- Nov 22 Bobby Wilson, English tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 1960 runner-up), born in Hendon, England (d. 2020)
- Nov 22 Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs 1964, 68; World C'ship gold pairs 1965, 66, 67, 68 [Oleg Protopopov]), born in Ulyanovsk, Russia (d. 2017)
- Nov 22 Michael Callan [Calinieff], actor (Peter-Occasional Wife), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Nov 23 Dean Gallo, American politician (Rep-R-NJ, 1985-94), born in Havensack, New Jersey (d. 1994)
- Nov 23 Steve Burtenshaw, English soccer manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Everton, QPR, Arsenal) and midfielder (Brighton & HA 237 games), born in Portslade, England (d. 2022)
- Nov 23 Vladislav Volkov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1971)
- Nov 23 Wally Harris, Canadian ice hockey referee (6 x Stanley Cup series; first NHL Director of Officiating), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2024)
- Nov 24 Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini royal and politician, world's longest serving Prime Minister of Bahrain (1970-2020), born in Bahrain (d. 2020)
- Nov 24 Ron Dellums, American politician (D-House representative from California, 1971-1998), born in Oakland, California (d. 2018)
- Nov 26 Marian Mercer, American actress and singer (Dean Martin Show), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2011)
- Nov 27 Al Jackson, Jr., American session drummer, known as "The Human Time Keeper" (Stax; Booker T. & MGs - "McLemore Avenue"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1975)
- Nov 27 Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann, German composer, born in Stuttgart, Germany
- Nov 27 Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker, born in Tampa, Florida (d. 2013)
- Nov 27 Prakash Bhandari, Indian cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs), born in Delhi, British India
- Nov 27 Verity Lambert, English film and TV producer (1st producer of Doctor Who, The Naked Civil Servant), born in London (d. 2007)
- Nov 28 Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty (sixth born child of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun), born in Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tokyo
- Nov 28 Randolph Stow, Australian author and poet (Suburbs of Hell), born in Geraldton, Western Australia (d. 2010)
- Nov 29 Diane Ladd [Ladner], American actress (Chinatown; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Wild at Heart), born in Meridian, Mississippi
Woody Allen (88 years old)
Nov 30 American film director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall), born in Brooklyn, New York
Famous Weddings
- Nov 6 English Prince Henry weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
Jane Wyatt
Nov 9 "Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat, dies at 72
- Nov 2 Jock "Herbie" Cameron, South African cricket wicketkeeper and captain (26 Tests; 51 dismissals, 10 x 50; Eastern Province, Transvaal, Western Province), dies of typhoid fever at 30
- Nov 4 Miklós Radnai, Hungarian composer (Symphony of the Magyars), music writer, and critic, dies at 43
- Nov 5 Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71
- Nov 6 Billy Sunday, American evangelist (revivals and sermons reflected the emotional upheavals caused by transition from rural to industrial society in the United States), dies at 72
- Nov 6 Henry Fairfield Osborn, American paleontologist, geologist (founded US Eugenics Society), dies at 78
- Nov 7 Lidj Jasu [Iyasu], Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-16), dies under mysterious circumstances under guard at 39
- Nov 8 Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian pioneering aviator (1st transpacific flight), disappears on a flight over the Andaman Sea at 38
- Nov 8 Hans Windisch, German New Testament scholar, dies at 54
- Nov 9 Paolo Orsi, Italian archaeologist (Sicilian excavations), dies at 76
- Nov 14 Jacobus Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (specializing in study of dune formation, particularly on West Frisian Island of Terschelling), dies of kidney failure at 33
- Nov 16 Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53
- Nov 19 Freddie Calthorpe, English cricketer (England captain v WI 1930), dies of cancer at 43
John Jellicoe (1859-1935)
Nov 20 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet in World War I (Battle of Jutland), dies of pneumonia at 75
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Nov 30 Portuguese writer, poet (The Book of Disquiet), and translator, dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 47 [1] [2]
