- Nov 3 Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist and chemist, born in Almelo, Netherlands (d. 1911)
- Nov 3 John Esten Cooke, American novelist (The Virginia Comedians) and Confederate States Army, born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1886)
- Nov 8 Oliver Otis Howard, American Major General (Union Army), born in Leeds, Maine (d. 1909)
- Nov 10 Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Cabell County, Virginia (d. 1864)
- Nov 20 Patrick Henry Jones, Irish-American lawyer, Postmaster of New York City, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland (d. 1900)
- Nov 23 Kaspar von Zumbusch, German-Austria sculptor of public statues in Vienna, born in Herzebrock, Westphalia (d. 1915)
- Nov 27 Harrison Millard, American composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1895)
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30-39
40-49
50-59
80-89
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