- Nov 1 Wintter Haynes Watts, American composer, dies at 78
- Nov 1 Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican auto racer (youngest F1 driver ever to race for Ferrari), dies in practice accident at 20
- Nov 2 Felice Lattuada, Italian composer and educator (Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan, 1935-62), dies at 80
Harlow Curtice
Nov 3 Harlow Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nov 7 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
- Nov 11 Joseph Allen Jr, American actor (The Night Before the Divorce, Motor Madness), dies at 44
- Nov 11 René Coty, French politician, President of France (1954-59), dies at 80
- Nov 11 George Hoyt, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (author "The Theory and Practice of Basketball Officiating"), dies at 79
- Nov 12 Alexander Spitzmüller, Austrian composer, educator, radio broadcaster, and music critic, dies at 68
- Nov 12 Sid Tomack, American actor (The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman), dies from a heart ailment at 55
- Nov 14 Manuel Gálvez, Argentine novelist (La maestra normal), dies at 80
- Nov 17 Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist and CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 95
- Nov 18 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
Niels Bohr
Nov 18 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922), dies at 77
- Nov 20 Jasper McLevy, American politician (Socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1933-57), dies at 84
- Nov 23 Gloria Gordon, English actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
- Nov 23 H. J. Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62
- Nov 24 James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
- Nov 26 Albert Sarraut, French Radical politician, Prime Minister of France (1933 and 1936), dies at 90
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Nov 28 Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948), dies at 82
- Nov 29 Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood, New Jersey