Historical Events
- Nov 16 New Zealand officially becomes a British colony
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 9 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, born in Sainte-Thérèse, Canada (d. 1898)
Auguste Rodin
Nov 12 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), born in Paris, France (d. 1917)
Auguste Rodin
Claude Monet
Nov 14 Claude Monet [Oscar-Claude], French impressionist (Water Lilies, Haystacks, Poplars), born in Paris, France (d. 1926)
Claude Monet
- Nov 15 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]
- Nov 16 Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
- Nov 19 Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Shustyanka near Dvinsk, Russian Biologist who founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and who identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals
- Nov 21 Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia
- Nov 25 Hugo Verriest, Flemish author and poet (Flemish Movement), born in Deerlijk, Belgium (d. 1922)
- Nov 27 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]
- Nov 30 Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 24 Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82