Famous Birthdays
- Nov 2 James Byron Gordon, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina (d. 1864)
Gordon Granger (1822-1876)
Nov 6 American Major General during the Civil War (Union Army), born in Wayne County, New York
- Nov 7 Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer, born in Turnhout, Belgium (d. 1890)
- Nov 14 William Harrow, American lawyer and a controversial Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Winchester, Kentucky (d. 1872)
- Nov 16 Charles Smith Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Westernville, New York (d. 1891)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 6 Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist, dies at 73
- Nov 6 Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch politician, Secretary of Interior of the Netherlands, dies at 71
- Nov 18 Anton Teyber, Austrian composer, dies at 66
- Nov 19 Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- Nov 24 Karl Jacob Wagner, German composer, dies at 50
- Nov 26 Johann Baptist Henneberg, Austrian composer, dies at 53
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