Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Karl Baedeker, German publisher (known for guidebooks for tourists), born in Essen, Germany (d. 1859)
- Nov 3 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma), born in Catania, Sicily (d. 1835)
Gail Borden (1801-1874)
Nov 9 American manufacturer and inventor of condensed milk, born in Norwich, New York
- Nov 10 Samuel Gridley Howe, United States physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
- Nov 10 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language), born in Lugansk, Russian Empire (d. 1872)
- Nov 13 Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony, born in Munich (d. 1877)
- Nov 13 Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen consort of Prussia (1840-61), born in Munich (d. 1873)
- Nov 24 Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
- Nov 27 Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1848)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 4 William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress, dies at 89
- Nov 5 Motoori Norinaga, Japanese physician, scholar, and writer (Kojiki-den (Commentaries on the Kojiki)), dies at 71
- Nov 6 Christian Friedrich Gregor, Moravian composer and bishop, dies at 78
- Nov 9 Carl Philipp Stamitz, German composer, dies at 56
- Nov 24 Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
- Nov 28 Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
