* November 11 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher ( b. 1813 )

Along with Zorrilla's work ( still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world ), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 ( with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience ) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.

On November 19, 1849, Frederik Schlegel received a letter from Kierkegaard entreating him to allow him to speak to Regine.

David William Cain ( born November 5, 1941 ) is a distinguished professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington and past president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of North America.

Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

He also scored 26 runs in a single over off the bowling of Danish Kaneria at Multan Cricket Stadium on 21 November 2006.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

At dusk on November 8, Danish soldiers, with lanterns and torches, entered a great hall of the royal palace and took away several noble guests.

* November 3 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress

* November 26 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist ( b. 1861 )

* November 18 – King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution, which declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark, regarded by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol of 1852, leading to the German – Danish war of 1864.

* November 18 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1885 )

* November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist

* November 15 – August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1949 )

* November 7 – At the end of the third day of Christian's coronation feast, several leading figures of the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion are imprisoned and tried for high treason.

* November 8 – November 10 – 82 noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, are executed by beheading in the Stockholm bloodbath.

* November 28 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman ( d. 1667 )

* November 11 – Hans Tausen, Danish reformer ( b. 1494 )

* November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist ( d. 1841 )

* November 14 – Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet ( d. 1850 )

* November 10 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman ( d. 1792 )

Jørn Oberg Utzon, (), AC ( 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008 ) was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

* November 25 – Dutch forces under Michiel de Ruyter free the Danish city of Nyborg from Swedish conquest ( earlier in the year ).

* November 12 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman ( b. 1598 )

* November 4 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist ( b. 1625 )

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

George Edward Moore OM, FBA ( 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958 ) was an English philosopher.

John Abercrombie FRSE FRCSE FRCPE ( 12 October 1780, Aberdeen – 14 November 1844, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.

Robert Nozick ( November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002 ) was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.

William Payne Alston ( November 29, 1921, Shreveport, Louisiana – September 13, 2009, Jamesville, New York ) was an American philosopher.

William Ames ( Latin: Guilielmus Amesius ) ( 1576 – 14 November 1633 ) was an English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist.

* November 3 – Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher ( d. 1837 )

* November 24 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1993 )

* November 13 – Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher ( died 1974 )

* November 17 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar ( d. 1975 )

* November 12 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher and literary critic ( d. 1980 )

* November 5 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer ( d. 1981 )

* November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian ( b. 1494 )

* November 9 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher, one of the profound founding fathers of the Muslims of India ( d. 1938 )

* November 18 – Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher ( d. 1973 )

* November 7 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer ( b. 1885 )

* November 17 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher ( d. 1967 )

* November 1 – Samir Roychoudhury, Indian Bengali poet and philosopher of Hungry generation

* November 16 – Pierre Charron, French philosopher ( b. 1541 )

* November 28 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher ( d. 1867 )

* November 2 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher ( d. 1864 )

* November 24 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1677 )

* November 14 – Georg Hegel, German philosopher ( b. 1770 )

* November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician ( b. 1646 )