Historical Events
- Nov 2 English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (isolation of nitrogen in 1772), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1819)
- Nov 10 Prince Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble, composer and librettist, born in Szydłowiec, Poland (d. 1800)
- Nov 23 Edward Rutledge, American founding father, Governor of South Carolina (1798-1800) and signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Charleston, British America (d. 1800)
Famous Weddings
Roger Sherman
Nov 17 Founding Father of the United States Roger Sherman (28) weds first wife Elizabeth Hartwell in Massachusetts
Famous Deaths
- Nov 27 Balthasar Schmid, German composer and printer, dies at 44
- Nov 27 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, German composer and librettist, dies at 59
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists