- Nov 1 Alfred Reisenauer, German pianist and composer, born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) (d. 1907)
- Nov 3 Eugène Samuel-Holeman, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1942)
- Nov 4 William Faulkes, British organist, transcriber and composer, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1933)