- Nov 8 Samuel Wylie Crawford, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania (d. 1892)
- Nov 14 Giulio Roberti, Italian composer, born in Barge, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1891)
- Nov 15 Petrus Abraham Samuel van Limburg Brouwer, Dutch politician and critic (Akbar), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1873)
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Nov 28 Russian pianist and composer (Dmitri Donskoi), born in Vikhvatinets, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire