- Nov 6 Bohdan Borkowski, Polish composer, dies at 48
- Nov 6 Kate Greenaway, English artist known for her children's book illustrations (Under the Window), dies of breast cancer at 55
- Nov 7 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
- Nov 8 Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American army nurse (union), dies at 84
- Nov 11 Antonio Zamara, Austrian harpist, teacher, and composer, dies at 72
- Nov 22 Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Russian biologist (founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals), dies at 61
- Nov 25 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
- Nov 27 Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
- Nov 30 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86