- Nov 1 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, dies at 97
- Nov 1 Joan McCracken, American stage and screen actress, dancer and comedienne (Oklahoma!; Claudia: Story of a Marriage), dies of a heart attack at 43
- Nov 2 James Thurber, American humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
- Nov 9 Antonius Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River), dies at 64
- Nov 13 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63
- Nov 13 Wally Brown, American actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
- Nov 13 Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1897)
- Nov 15 Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51
- Nov 15 Elsie Ferguson, American actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 78
- Nov 16 Sam Rayburn, American politician (US Representative from Texas, 1913-61; Speaker of the House for 17 years), dies of pancreatic cancer at 79
- Nov 18 Clarence "Bud" Pinkston, American diver (Olympic gold 10m platform, silver 3m springboard 1920), dies at 61
- Nov 19 Dorothy Heyward (née Kuhns), American playwright (Porgy), and novelist, dies at 71
- Nov 24 Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67
- Nov 25 Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (6 x Olympic gold, 3 x silver 1900, 20), dies at 95
- Nov 26 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, Russian-Soviet pianist, composer, and teacher, dies at 86
- Nov 30 Stanislaw Kazuro, Polish composer, dies at 80