- Nov 2 James Byron Gordon, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina (d. 1864)
Gordon Granger (1822-1876)
Nov 6 American Major General during the Civil War (Union Army), born in Wayne County, New York
- Nov 7 Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer, born in Turnhout, Belgium (d. 1890)
- Nov 14 William Harrow, American lawyer and a controversial Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Winchester, Kentucky (d. 1872)
- Nov 16 Charles Smith Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Westernville, New York (d. 1891)