- Nov 1 Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1890)
- Nov 5 Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Hungarian-American diplomat, mining engineer, and Major General (Union Army), born in Szeged, Hungary (d. 1912)
- Nov 9 A. P. Hill, Confederate general, born in Culpeper, Virginia (d. 1865)
- Nov 14 August Reissmann, composer
- Nov 25 Edward Augustus Wild, American homeopathic doctor and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1891)
- Nov 29 Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)