- Nov 3 Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American biochemist who isolated adrenaline (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources, born in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan (d. 1922)
- Nov 5 Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins, born in Lévis, Quebec (d. 1920)
- Nov 5 Paul Sabatier, French chemist (Nobel 1912 - improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals), born in Carcassonne, France (d. 1941)
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Nov 6 American composer and march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C.
- Nov 8 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (Rydberg formula), born in Halmstad, Sweden (d. 1919)
- Nov 9 Joseph Miroslav Weber, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1906)
- Nov 13 George Whitfield Chadwick, American composer (Judi Van Winke), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1931)
- Nov 16 Jules van den Heuvel, Belgian lawyer and politician, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1926)
- Nov 17 Louis Lyautey, French general and colonial administrator (Indochina, Morocco) Minister of Defense (1916-17), born in Nancy, France (d. 1934)
Benedict XV (1854-1922)
Nov 21 Italian 258th Pope (1914-22), born in Pegli, Genoa, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia
