Historical Events
- Nov 1 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
Benito Mussolini
Event of Interest
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
Robert A. Millikan
- Nov 11 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
Music Recording
Nov 11 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session
Louis Armstrong
- Nov 11 Night of Kersten - Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
- Nov 11 Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
- Nov 12 US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
- Nov 16 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
- Nov 16 Philip Barry's "In a Garden" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Nov 21 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
Red Grange
- 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
- Nov 28 7th French government of Briand sworn-in
- Nov 28 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee
Event of Interest
Nov 28 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies 4 months later of TB
Georges Vezina
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
Doris Roberts
Nov 4 Doris Roberts, American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2016)
Doris Roberts
- 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 Sir Alistair Horne, British historian and journalist (A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962), born in London (d. 2017)
- Nov 9 Bill Bruton, American MLB outfielder (NL stolen bases leader 1953-55), born in Penola, Alabama (d. 1995)
- Nov 10 Richard Burton, Welsh stage and screen actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales (d. 1984)
- Nov 11 Jonathan Winters, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2013)
- Nov 11 June Whitfield, English comedian (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous), born in London, England (d. 2018)
- Nov 11 John Guillermin, film director (The Towering Inferno), born in London (d. 2015)
- Nov 13 Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Nov 15 Howard Baker, (Sen-R-Tenn), presidential chief of staff
- Nov 15 Jurriaan Andriessen, [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
- 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
- Nov 17 Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier
- Nov 17 Libby Newman, painter/printmaker/curator
- Nov 17 Rock Hudson, American actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, Ice Station Zebra), born in Winnetka, Illinois (d. 1985)
- Nov 18 Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
- Nov 18 William Mayer, American composer (A Death in the Family, Brief Candle), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
- Nov 19 Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust), born in Poznań (d. 2017)
- Nov 20 June [Shirley L] Christy, American jazz singer (Tampico)
- Nov 20 Maya Plisetskaya, Rusiian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet), born in Moscow
Robert F. Kennedy
Nov 20 Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
Robert F. Kennedy
- Nov 20 Kaye Ballard, American actress and comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2019)
- Nov 21 Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Jakarta
- Nov 22 Gunther Schuller, hornist/ jazz composer (Visitation), born in NYC, New York (d. 2015)
- Nov 23 Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
- Nov 24 Alun Owen, North Wales, writer (Hard Days Night)/actor (Servant)
- Nov 24 William F. Buckley Jr, American conservative author and commentator (National Review, Firing Line), born in NYC (d. 2008)
- 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 25 Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador
- Nov 26 Eugene Istomin, American pianist (Leventritt Award-1943), born in NYC, New York
- Nov 26 Gregorio Alvarez, Uruguayan Dictator, President of Uruguay (1981-85), born in Montevideo (d. 2016)
- Nov 27 Ernie Wise, England, comedian (Morecambe & Wise)
- Nov 27 Marshall Thompson, Peoria Ill, actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari)
- Nov 27 Michael Tolan, actor (Nurses, Senator), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Nov 27 John Maddox, British science writer and editor
- Nov 28 Aurelio de la Vega, composer
- Nov 28 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 1986)
- Nov 28 József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 2 Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65
- Nov 6 Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
- Nov 9 Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer, dies at 71
- Nov 12 Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65
- Nov 14 Agnes Zimmermann, German composer, dies at 78
- Nov 20 Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
- Nov 21 Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (US Open 1893-94, 1896-97), dies at 52
- Nov 26 Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
- Nov 27 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies
- Nov 29 Karl Flodin, Finnish composer, dies at 67