- Nov 3 Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and arranger ("Love Is Blue"), dies at 81
- Nov 7 (George) "Sonny" Cohn, American jazz trumpeter (Red Saunders, 1945-60; Duke Ellington, 1960-84), dies at 81
- Nov 8 Basil Poledouris, American film score composer, dies of cancer at 61
- Nov 10 Gerald Levert, American singer (In My Songs), dies of acute narcotic intoxication at 40
- Nov 16 John Veale, English composer, dies at 84
- Nov 17 Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (won Sanremo Music Festival - Viale d'autunno), dies at 82
- Nov 17 Ruth Brown, American actress and singer sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" ("So Long"; "Teardrops From My Eyes"), dies at 78
- Nov 21 Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist, dies at 91
- Nov 21 Věroslav Neumann, Czech composer and music educator, dies at 75
- Nov 23 Anita O'Day [Colton], American jazz singer, dies at 87
Betty Comden (1917-2006)
Nov 23 American lyricist ("On The Town"; "Just In Time") and playwright, dies of a heart failure at 89
- Nov 24 (Juhani) "Juice" Leskinen, Finnish rock singer-songwrirter ("Musta aurinko nousee - Black Sun Rises"; "Marilyn"), and poet, dies from multiple medical issues at 56
- Nov 24 Robert McFerrin, Sr., American operatic baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1955-58; singing voice for Sidney Poitier in film "Porgy and Bess"), dies at 85 [1]
- Nov 25 Bobby Byrne, American orchestra leader (Club Seven), dies at 88
- Nov 25 Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (Fred Buscaglione), and screenwriter, dies at 86
- Nov 25 Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
- Nov 26 Enrique Antonio "Tony" Silvester, Panamanian-American R&B singer-songwriter (The Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays the Fool"), dies of multiple myeloma at 65
- Nov 27 Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
- Nov 29 Nina Milkina, Russian-British concert pianist, dies at 87
- Nov 30 Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
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