Historical Events
- Nov 2 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 10 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, Czech composer, born in Prague Old Town, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1863)
- Nov 18 Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, born in Friedrichsfelde Palace, Berlin (d. 1806)
- Nov 28 Luke Howard, British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist (nomenclature system for clouds), born in London (d. 1864)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 5 Johannes Schmidlin, Swiss composer, dies at 50
- Nov 5 Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
- Nov 10 Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
- Nov 11 Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter, dies at 84
- Nov 19 William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
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