Historical Events
- Nov 1 In an all-American bout, Mickey Walker upsets defending champion Jack Britton in a 15-round points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC; wins world welterweight boxing crown
End of the Ottoman Empire
Nov 1 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
National Maritime Museum
Nov 1 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber Found
Nov 4 Howard Carter rediscovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
- Nov 5 Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
Frederick Soddy
Nov 9 Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
Little Nellie Kelly
Nov 13 George M. Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly" opens at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 276 performances - Cohan's longest run
- Nov 13 Marc Connelly and George Kaufman's revue "'The 49ers" opens at Puch and Judy Theatre, NYC; runs for 16 performances
- Nov 14 German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth's term ends
- Nov 16 Ottoman Caliph, Sultan Mehmed VI asks the British army for help
- Nov 17 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship
- Nov 18 Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
- Nov 19 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
- Nov 20 Zoe Akins' play "Texas Nightingale" premieres in NYC
- Nov 21 Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator [1]
MacDonald Elected Party Leader
Nov 22 British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
- Nov 22 Library Ave in Bronx named
- Nov 22 Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government
Mussolini's Dictatorial Powers
Nov 24 Italian parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
- Nov 26 1st successful Technicolor movie (The Toll of the Sea), premieres at the Rialto Theatre in NYC
Tutankhamun's Tomb
Nov 26 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
Hitler Rally
Nov 30 Adolf Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich, Germany
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 George S. Irving [Shelasky], American broadway singer and actor (Dumplings), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
- Nov 2 John Pinsent, English classical scholar (Greek mythology) (d. 1995)
- Nov 4 Benno Besson, Swiss actor and director (Der Arzt wider Willen), born in Yverdon-les-Bains, Vaud, Switzerland (d. 2006)
- Nov 4 Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, French resistance fighter and assassin of Admiral of the Fleet and Vichy Prime Minister François Darlan, born in Algiers, French Empire (d. 1942)
- Nov 4 Poul Rovsing Olsen, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen (d. 1982)
- Nov 4 Ralph Sutton, American stride and Dixieland jazz pianist and composer, born in Hamburg, Missouri (d. 2001)
- Nov 5 Violet Barclay, American illustrator, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2010)
- Nov 6 Lars Edlund, Swedish composer, born in Karlstad, Sweden (d. 2013)
- Nov 6 Michel Crozier, French sociologist, born in Sainte-Menehould, France (d. 2013)
- Nov 7 Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1999)
- Nov 8 Ademir de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (Brazil national team 1945-53), born in Recife, Brazil (d. 1996)
Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001)
Nov 8 South African cardiac surgeon who performed the 1st heart transplant, born in Beaufort West, Union of South Africa
- Nov 9 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Porgy & Bess), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1965)
- Nov 9 Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher, born in Debrecen, Hungary (d. 1974)
- Nov 9 Raymond Devos, Belgian-French humorist, born in Mouscron, Belgium (d. 2006)
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Nov 11 American author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Nov 12 Kim Hunter [Janet Cole], American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire; Planet of the Apes), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2002)
- Nov 13 Jack Narz, American TV game show host (Dotto, Video Village), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2008)
- Nov 13 Madeleine Sherwood, Canadian actress (Mother Superior - Flying Nun), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2016)
- Nov 13 Oskar Werner [Bschließmayer], Austrian stage and screen actor an(The Spy Who Came In from the Cold; Ship of Fools; Fahrenheit 451), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1984)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922-2016)
Nov 14 Egyptian politician and 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96), born in Cairo, Egypt
- Nov 14 Marina Candael, Flemish dancer and choreography (Rhapsody in Blue), born in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium (d. 2003)
- Nov 14 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1973)
- Nov 15 Francesco Rosi, Italian director (Lucky Luciano), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2015)
- Nov 15 Giorgio Manganelli, Italian writer and journalist (Gruppo 63 movement), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1990)
- Nov 15 Paul Acket, Dutch publisher (Music Express) and impresario (North Sea Jazz Festival), born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) (d. 1992)
- Nov 16 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, born in Flandreau, South Dakota (d. 2015)
José Saramago (1922-2010)
Nov 16 Portuguese writer, novelist (Blindness, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ) and Nobel laureate, born in Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal
- Nov 16 Royal Dano, American actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II), born in New York City (d. 1994)
- Nov 17 Émile Noël, French European civil servant (helped bring about European Union), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 1996)
- Nov 18 Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
- Nov 18 Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (1956-63), born in León, Nicaragua (d. 1967)
- Nov 18 Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (Olympic gold 1936) (d. 1992)
- Nov 18 Viktor Afanasyev, Soviet politician and editor (Pravda), born in Aktamysh, Tatar A.S.S.R., Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (d. 1994)
- Nov 19 Stanley Keith Runcorn, British geophysicist (pioneering studies of paleomagnetism provided early evidence in support of the theory of continental drift), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1995)
- Nov 19 Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (major role indeciphering Mayan script), born in Kharkov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. (d. 1999)
- Nov 20 Louis van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director (The House, De prijs van overleven), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2016)
- Nov 21 Abe Lemons, American basketball coach (Oklahoma City Uni, Pan American Uni; NABC Coach of the Year 1978 Uni of Texas Austin), born in Ryan, Oklahoma (d. 2002)
- Nov 21 Maria Casares [Pérez], Spanish-French actress (Orpheus, Lectrice), born in A Coruña, Spain (d. 1996)
Eugene Stoner (1922-1997)
Nov 22 American firearms designer and inventor of the M16, born in Gosport, Indiana
- Nov 22 Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer (Azerbaijan Capriccio, Shur), born in Ganja, Azerbaijan (d. 1984)
- Nov 23 Manuel Fraga [Iribarne], Spanish politician, President of Spanish Galicia (1990-2005), born in Vilalba, Galaicia, Spain (d. 2012)
- Nov 24 Stanford Robert Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist (nickel-metal hydride battery), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2012)
- Nov 25 Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (Le tour de chant de Gloria Lasso), born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia (d. 2005)
- Nov 25 Ilja Hurnik, Czech composer, born in Poruba (d. 2013)
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000)
Nov 26 American cartoonist (Peanuts), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Nov 26 Étienne Gailly, Belgian long distance runner (famous Olympic bronze finish 1948), born in Beringen, Belgium (d. 1971)
- Nov 28 Helen Copley, American newspaper publisher (The San Diego Union-Tribune), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 2004)
- Nov 29 Benjamin Smit, Curacaos architect (St Elizabeth Hospital), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2020)
- Nov 29 Minnie Miñoso, Cuban Baseball HOF left-fielder (9 x MLB All Star; Gold Glove Award 1957, 59, 60; Chicago White Sox), born in Perico, Cuba (d. 2015)
- Nov 30 Graham Crowden, Scottish stage, screen, and radio actor (O Lucky Man!; A Very Peculiar Practice), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2010)
- Nov 30 Robert Evett, American composer, born in Loveland, Colorado (d. 1975)
- Nov 30 Weston Noble, American music educator and conductor (Luther College, 1948-2005), born in Riceville, Iowa (d. 2016)
Famous Divorces
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nov 13 American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (55) divorces socialite Catherine Tobin after 33 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Alfred Capus, French journalist and playwright, dies at 63
- Nov 6 Morgan Bulkeley, American politician (US Senator - Connecticut 1905-11) and Baseball HOF administrator (NL President 1876), dies at 84
- Nov 6 William Baines, British composer, dies of tuberculosis at 23
- Nov 7 Sam Thompson, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL batting champion 1887 Detroit Wolverines; NL HR leader 1889, 1895 Philadelphia Quakers), dies at 62
- Nov 14 Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer, dies at 79
- Nov 14 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", dies at 58
- Nov 16 Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
- Nov 17 Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), dies at 75
- Nov 18 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
- Nov 19 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), dies from a heart attack at 58
- Nov 21 Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
