- Nov 7 Isobel Gunn, Orkney women who disguised herself as a man to work for the Hudson Bay Company (one of the first women in Western Canada), dies at 81 [1]
- Nov 11 Pedro V, King of Portugal (1853-61), known as "The Hopeful", dies of typhoid and/or cholera at 24
- Nov 13 Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, dies at 42
- Nov 28 Robert Führer, Czech composer of sacred music, and music theorist, dies at 54