| Deaths on November 26 | |||
| Year (age) | Name | Notoriety | Born |
| 1807 (62) | Oliver Ellsworth | Third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1796-1800) | 29 Apr 1745 |
| 1829 (67) | Bushrod Washington | Supreme Court Justice, George's nephew | 5 Jun 1762 |
| 1836 (80) | John Loudon McAdam | Invented the macadamized road construction method, originally created with three layers of crushed stone, which only later included a layer of asphalt | 21 Sep 1756 |
| 1883 (96) | Sojourner Truth | Evangelist, civil rights leader, feminist, women's & black's rights | 18 Nov 1787 |
| 1885 (71) | Thomas Andrews | Chemist, physicist, established the concepts of critical temperature and pressure and showed that a gas will pass into the liquid state, and vice versa, without any discontinuity or abrupt change in physical properties; also proved that ozone is a form of oxygen | 19 Dec 1813 |
| 1896 (72) | Benjamin Apthorp Gould | Astronomer, his star catalogs helped fix the list of constellations of the Southern Hemisphere | 27 Sep 1824 |
| 1915 (57) | Washington Atlee Burpee | Botanist, developed lima beans, founder of world's largest mail-order seed company | 5 Apr 1858 |
| 1926 (71) | John Moses Browning | Inventor, designer of small arms and automatic weapons, best known for his automatic rifle | 21 Jan 1855 |
| 1938 (70) | Flora Disney | Mother of Walt Disney | |
| 1939 | James Naismith | Created the game of basketball | |
| 1956 (51) | Tommy Dorsey | Jazz musician, bandleader, trombonist, songwriter, Big Band leader; sold more than 110,000,000 records - [died on the day I was born] | 19 Nov 1905 |
| 1965 (62) | William "Wild Bill" Elliott | Movie actor | 15 Oct 1903 |
| 1970 (93) | B. O. Davis Sr. | First black general | |
| 1973 | Albert DiSalvo | Boston strangler (was stabbed to death) | |
| 1986 (76) | Scatman Crothers | Actor (The Shining) | |
| 1990 (94) | Fung Yu-Lan | Chinese philosopher; 20th-century legend | 4 Dec 1895 |
