Historical Events
Historic Expedition
Nov 4 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
- Nov 6 Providence Steam Roller become first NFL team to host a game at night under floodlights; lose 16-0 against the Chicago Cardinals at the Cycledrome, Providence, RI
- Nov 8 Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris
Politburo Power Struggle
Nov 17 Nikolai Bukharin is expelled from the Soviet Politburo amidst a power struggle with Joseph Stalin
- Nov 17 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
- Nov 18 Foundation stone for Umaid Bhawan Palace laid in Jodhpur, India. Originally built to provide employment for drought-stricken farmers, now one of world's largest private residences
- Nov 18 Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
- Nov 20 First broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
Salvador Dali
Nov 20 Salvador Dali's first one-man show
- Nov 28 Chicago fullback Ernie Nevers sets NFL record for most points scored in a single game with all 40 in the Cardinals' 40–6 rout of Chicago Bears; Nevers has NFL record 6 touchdowns and 4 extra points
- Nov 28 Richard E. Byrd makes his 1st South Pole flight
- Nov 29 American aviator Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole"
- Nov 30 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers take their 4th title; beat Regina Roughriders, 14-3
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1979-93), born in Peabody, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
- Nov 1 Rudy Kousbroek, Dutch essayist (Het Oostindisch kampsyndroom (The East Indian Camp Syndrome)), poet (Anathema), and translator, born in Pematang Siantar, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (d. 2010)
- Nov 2 Amar Bose, American electrical engineer, academic (M.I.T.), sound engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur (Bose Corporation), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
- Nov 2 Harold Farberman, American percussionist, conductor, and composer (Medea), born in New York City (d. 2018)
- Nov 2 Milan Stibilj, Slovenian composer (Zoom; Apokatastasis - Slovene Requiem), born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 2014)
- Nov 2 Rachel Ames, American actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital), born in Portland, Oregon
- Nov 4 Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor, comedian and Israel's 1st mime (The Policeman, The Delta Force), born in Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (d. 1987)
Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013)
Nov 4 Indian writer and mental calculator known as the "Human Computer", born in Bangalore, Mysore, British India
- Nov 5 Lennart Johansson, Swedish soccer administrator (President Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) 1990–2007), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2019)
- Nov 7 Mervyn Burtch, Welsh composer (The Raven King) and educator, born in Ystrad Mynach, Wales (d. 2015)
- Nov 7 Ruggero Mastroianni, Italian film editor (Giulietta degli spiriti), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1996)
- Nov 8 António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher, born in Tábua, Portugal
- Nov 8 Bert Berns, American songwriter ("Twist And Shout"; "Piece Of My Heart"; "Hang On Sloopy") and producer ("Under The Boardwalk"; "Brown-Eyed Girl"), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1967)
- Nov 8 Bobby Bowden, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Florida State 1976-2009; National C'ship 1993, 99), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2021)
- Nov 8 Trevor McMahon, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (v India & Pak 1955-56), born in Wellington, New Zealand
- Nov 9 Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, Russian classical and popular music composer (Trumpet Concerto), born in Volgograd, Russia
Imre Kertész (1929-2016)
Nov 9 Hungarian writer (Nobel Laureate 2002) and concentration camp survivor, born in Budapest
- Nov 9 Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist, born in Montréal, Quebec (d. 2005)
- Nov 9 Severn Darden, American actor (Luv; The President's Analyst; Saturday the 14th), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1995)
- Nov 10 Marilyn Bergman (née Katz), American Emmy, Grammy, and Academy Award-winning lyricist, with husband Alan ("The Way We Were"; "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"; "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2022)
- Nov 10 Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican actress (Aventurera, Víctimas del Pecado), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2015)
- Nov 10 W. E. B. Griffin [William Edmund Butterworth], American best-selling author (Clandestine Operations, The Lieutenants), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2019)
- Nov 11 (Dolores) LaVern Baker [Evans], American blues vocalist ("I Cried a Tear"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1997)
- Nov 11 Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer, poet (Tumult), translator, and librettist, born in Kaufbeuren, Germany (d. 2022)
- Nov 11 Olle Nygren, Swedish speedway rider (World Team Cup 1960; World C'ship 1954 3rd; World Longtrack C'ship 1961 runner-up), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2021)
Grace Kelly (1929-1982)
Nov 12 American actress (Rear Window) and Princess of Monaco, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Nov 12 Michael Ende, German fantasy and children's writer (The Neverending Story), born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria (d. 1995)
- Nov 13 Fred Phelps, American Baptist minister and civil rights attorney, born in Meridian, Mississippi (d. 2014)
- Nov 14 Gilbert Rogin, American journalist and author (The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
- Nov 14 Horst Janssen, German graphic artist and printmaker, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1995)
- Nov 14 Jimmy Piersall, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1954, 56; his bipolar disorder subject book & film, "Fear Strikes Out"), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 2017)
- Nov 15 Ed Asner, American Emmy Award-winning actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Mr. Grant"; Lou Grant; Roots; Up), and activist, born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2021)
- Nov 16 Renate Rubinstein, German-Dutch author and columnist (Tamar), born in Berlin (d. 1990)
- Nov 17 Edgar White, American yachtsman (Olympic gold 1952)
- Nov 17 Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
- Nov 17 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba
- Nov 17 Sumner White, US yachtsman (Olympic gold 1952), born in New York City (d. 1988)
- Nov 18 Francisco Savín, Mexican conductor and composer (Quasar I), born in Mexico City (d. 2018)
- Nov 18 William J. "Pete" Knight, American astronaut and test pilot (X-15), born in Noblesville, Indiana (d. 2004)
- Nov 20 Don January, American golfer (PGA Championship 1967; 10 x PGA Tour wins; 22 x PGA Tour Champions wins), born in Plainview, Texas (d. 2023)
- Nov 20 Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian soccer manager (record 14 x league titles; Millonarios [6], Santa Fe [1], América de Cali [7]; Columbia), born in Sopetrán, Colombia (d. 2020)
- Nov 20 Kenneth Schermerhorn, American conductor (American Ballet), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 2005)
- Nov 20 Lou Berberet, American MLB baseball catcher. 1954-60 (New York Yankees, Washington Senators, and 2 other teams), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2004)
- Nov 21 Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator, born in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec (d. 2012)
- Nov 21 Marilyn French, American author (The Women's Room), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2009)
- Nov 22 Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
- Nov 22 Ben Helfgott, Polish-British Holocaust survivor, Olympian (1956, 1960), champion weightlifter, and Holocaust educator, born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland (d. 2023)
- Nov 23 Gloria Lynne [Wilson], American jazz vocalist (Dell Tones), born in Harlem, New York (d. 2013)
- Nov 23 Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian Zionist writer, born in Houston, Texas
- Nov 23 Maurice Flitcroft, British golfer known as "the world's worst golfer", born in Manchester, England (d. 2007)
- Nov 25 Jack Hogan [Richard Roland Benson Jr], American actor (Combat", "Adam 12", "Sierra"), born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Nov 25 Theo Bruins, Dutch concert pianist and composer (Sei Studi; Syncope), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Nov 26 Betta St John [Betty Jean Striegler], American-English stage and screen actress, singer and dancer (Dream Wife; Carousel; Corridors of Blood), born in Hawthorne, California (d. 2023)
- Nov 26 Joyce McCartan, Irish peace campaigner, born in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland (d. 1995)
- Nov 26 Lorraine Macleod, American dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), born in Maine (d. 1995)
- Nov 26 Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian polka and Oberkrain ethnic accordionist, piano player, and composer (Avsenik Brothers Ensemble), born in Begunje na Gorenjskem, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) (d. 2015)
- Nov 27 Billy Nair, South African union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison)
Berry Gordy (94 years old)
Nov 28 Jr, American songwriter, producer and record company founder (Motown), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Nov 28 Clarence Fountain, American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer (The Blind Boys of Alabama), born in Tyler, Alabama (d. 2018)
- Nov 29 Jackie Stallone (née Labofish);, American astrologer, television personality, and mother of Sylvester Stallone and Frank Stallone, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2020)
Dick Clark (1929-2012)
Nov 30 American radio and television personality (American Bandstand), born in Mount Vernon, New York
- Nov 30 Joan Ganz Cooney, founder of the Children's Television Workshop (Sesame Street), born in Phoenix, Arizona
Famous Weddings
E. B. White
Nov 13 American writer E. B. White (30) weds literary editor Katharine Angell (37)
Shirley Booth
Nov 23 Academy Award-winning Shirley Booth marries comic actor Ed Gardner
Famous Deaths
- Nov 3 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (advocated literary use of Nynorsk), dies of tuberculosis at 46
- Nov 6 Maximilian, Prince of Baden [Max von Bathe], German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918), dies at 62
- Nov 9 Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
- Nov 11 Mieczyslaw Soltys, Polish composer, dies at 66
- Nov 14 Joe McGinnity, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (World Series 1905; 5 × NL wins leader; NL ERA leader 1904; Baltimore Orioles, NY Giants), dies at 58
- Nov 17 Dick Lilley, English cricket wicket-keepe (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies at 62
- Nov 17 Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
- Nov 18 Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
- Nov 19 Arthur Henry Mann, English organist and composer (Kings College Cambridge, Church of England Hymnal), dies at 79
- Nov 23 Arvid Kleven, Norwegian flautist and composer, dies at 29
Georges Clémenceau (1841-1929)
Nov 24 Prime Minister of France (Radical-Socialist Party: 1906-09, 1917-20) who defended Dreyfuss, dies at 88
- Nov 26 Michele Esposito, Italian composer who worked in Ireland, dies at 74
