- Nov 1 Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet, born in Lithang (d. 1856)
- Nov 6 John Grant Mitchell, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1894)
- Nov 7 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (Contes cruels), born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France (d. 1889)
- Nov 13 Joseph F. Smith, 6th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Far West, Missouri (d. 1918)
- Nov 14 August Senoa, Croatian writer (Zlatarevo zlato), born in Zagreb, Croatia (d. 1881)
- Nov 20 William Painter, American inventor (crown cork bottle cap and opener), born in Ireland (d. 1906)
- Nov 22 José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, born in Portuguese Macau (d. 1903)
- Nov 29 Aeneas Mackay, Dutch minister of the Interior and the Colonies (d. 1909)