november

• 1 Stephen Crane, novelist, b. New Jersey 1871
• 2 Luchino Visconti, film director, b. Milan 1906
• 3 André Malraux, novelist, b. Paris 1901
• 4 Augustus Toplady, Calvinist poet, b. Farnham, Surrey, 1740
• 5 Vivien Leigh, actor, b. Darjeeling, India 1913
• 6 John Philip Sousa, composer, b. Washington DC 1854
• 7 Joan Sutherland, operatic singer, b. Australia 1926
• 8 Katharine Hepburn, actor, b. Connecticut 1909
• 9 Herbert Kalmus, inventor of Technicolour, b. 1881
• 10 Oliver Goldsmith, author, b. Ireland 1730
• 11 Paul Signac, painter, b. Paris 1863
• 12 Sun Yat-sen, nationalist, b. near Canton, China 1866
• 13 Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, b. Edinburgh 1850
• 14 Claude Monet, painter, b. Paris 1840
• 15 Marianne Moore, poet, b. St Louis, Missouri 1887
• 16 Eddie Condon, musician, b. Indiana 1905
• 17 Alan Charles Mackerras, conductor, b. 1925
• 18 Johnny Mercer, composer, b. Savannah, Georgia 1909
• 19 Bertel Thorwaldsen, sculptor, b. Copenhagen 1770
• 20 Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer, b. Missouri 1889
• 21 René Magritte, painter, b. Lessinges, Belgium 1898
• 22 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist, b. Warwickshire 1819
• 23 Boris Karloff, actor, b. London 1887
• 24 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter, b. Albi, Tarn, France 1864
• 25 Lope de Vega, dramatist and poet, b. Madrid 1562
• 26 Eugene Ionesco, dramatist, b. Rumania 1912
• 27 Anders Celsius, astronomer, b. Sweden 1701
• 28 William Blake, poet and artist, b. London 1757
• 29 Louisa May Alcott, novelist, b. Pennsylvania 1832
• 30 Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), writer, b. Hannibal, Missouri 1835