- Nov 8 Claudius W. Sears, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Peru, Massachusetts (d. 1891)
- Nov 8 Théodore-Joseph Canneel, Flemish painter, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1892)
- Nov 9 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, American Major General (Union Army), born in Piatt's Landing, Kentucky (d. 1873)
- Nov 12 Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
- Nov 12 Carlo Pedrotti, Italian composer, associate of Verdi, born in Verona (d. 1893)
- Nov 12 Martin Gustav Nottebohm, German composer, born in Lüdenscheid, Westphalia (d. 1882)
- Nov 21 Richard B. Garnett, American Confederate Brigadier General, born in Essex County, Virginia (d. 1863)
- Nov 24 Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Moreno y Maisonave, Guatemalan-Spanish Cardinal (Archbishop of Toledo, first Cardinal born in America and of Creole parents), born in Guatemala (d. 1884)
- Nov 25 John Bigelow, American statesman and author, born in Bristol, New York (d. 1911)
Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)
Nov 30 German historian and scholar (Imperial Lives, Nobel Prize in Literature 1902), born in Garding, Duchy of Schleswig
