What Happened in November 1828

Famous Birthdays

Nov 2 Byron Grimes, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Pitt County, North Carolina (d. 1880)
Nov 3 Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr, Austrian violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue (Vienna Conservatory, 1851-93), born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1893)
Nov 7 Ludwig Deppe, German composer, born in Barntrup, Germany (d. 1890)
Nov 14 James Birdseye MacPherson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Clyde, Ohio (d. 1864)
Nov 21 William McComb, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania (d. 1918)
Nov 25 Franjo Rački, Croatian historian and politician, born in Fužine, Austrian Empire (d. 1894)
Nov 26 René Goblet, French politician (41st Prime Minister of France), born in Aire-sur-la-Lys, France (d. 1905)
Nov 30 Jedediah Hotchkiss, American topographer and cartographer, born in Windsor, New York (d. 1899)

Nov 5 Maria Feodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia, dies at 69
Nov 8 Thomas Bewick, English wood-engraver and illustrator (A History of British Birds, Aesop's Fables), dies at 75

Nov 19 Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), dies from syphilis and typhoid fever at 31