Historical Events
- Nov 8 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands
- Nov 17 Printer John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY colonial governor William Cosby; later acquitted
Famous Birthdays
Daniel Boone
Nov 2 Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer (US Hall of Fame 1915), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1820)
- Nov 25 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, German composer, born in Niedergebra, Nordhausen, Germany (d. 1792)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 14 Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French mistress of British king Charles II, dies at 85