- Nov 3 Jubal Early, American General (Confederate Army), born in Franklin County, Virginia (d. 1894)
- Nov 4 Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
- Nov 4 William Polk Hardeman, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Williamson County, Tennessee (d. 1898)
- Nov 14 John Curwen, English Congregationalist minister and founder of Tonic sol-fa music system, born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire (d. 1880)
- Nov 15 Joseph Bennett Plummer, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Barre, Massachusetts (d. 1862)
- Nov 17 August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian Czech musicologist (History of Music), born in Vysoké Mýto, Bohemia (d. 1876)
- Nov 26 William H. T. Walker, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1864)
- Nov 29 Carl Binder, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1860)
- Nov 29 Morrison Waite, American jurist (Seventh Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court), born in Lyme, Connecticut (d. 1888)