- Nov 4 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and philanthropist, dies at 89
- Nov 6 John Parsons Beach, American composer, dies at 76
- Nov 16 Sol Hoʻopiʻi [Kaʻaiʻai], Native Hawaiian acoustic and electric lap steel guitar virtuoso, dies of diabetes related kidney failure at 50
- Nov 18 Ruth Crawford Seeger, American modernist classical and folk music composer (String Quartet, 1931; Rissolty, Rossolty), dies at 52
- Nov 21 Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band), dies at 60
- Nov 24 George Alexander Russell, American organist, composer and the first Frick Professor of Music for Princeton University, dies at 73
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