| 125161 | November 2 | Birth | 1808 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (d. 1889) |
| 125162 | November 2 | Birth | 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864) |
| 125163 | November 2 | Birth | 1821 – George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1899) |
| 125164 | November 2 | Birth | 1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian physician and academic (d. 1904) |
| 125165 | November 2 | Birth | 1837 – Émile Bayard, French illustrator and painter (d. 1891) |
| 125166 | November 2 | Birth | 1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918) |
| 125167 | November 2 | Birth | 1847 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher and author (d. 1922) |
| 125168 | November 2 | Birth | 1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish historian, author, and academic (d. 1947) |
| 125169 | November 2 | Birth | 1865 – Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923) |
| 125170 | November 2 | Birth | 1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (d. 1933) |
| 125171 | November 2 | Birth | 1877 – Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (d. 1957) |
| 125172 | November 2 | Birth | 1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915) |
| 125173 | November 2 | Birth | 1878 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930) |
| 125174 | November 2 | Birth | 1879 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist (d. 1965) |
| 125175 | November 2 | Birth | 1880 – Fritz Achterberg, German actor (d. 1971) |
| 125176 | November 2 | Birth | 1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (d. 1947) |
| 125177 | November 2 | Birth | 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972) |
| 125178 | November 2 | Birth | 1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (d. 1971) |
| 125179 | November 2 | Birth | 1888 – Alfred Asikainen, Russian-Finnish wrestler (d. 1942) |
| 125180 | November 2 | Birth | 1890 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933) |
| 125181 | November 2 | Birth | 1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (d. 1964) |
| 125182 | November 2 | Birth | 1891 – David Townsend, American art director and set decorator (d. 1935) |
| 125183 | November 2 | Birth | 1892 – Alice Brady, American actress and singer (d. 1939) |
| 125184 | November 2 | Birth | 1893 – Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company (d. 1966) |
| 125185 | November 2 | Birth | 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976) |
| 125186 | November 2 | Birth | 1899 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1973) |
| 125187 | November 2 | Birth | 1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1987) |
| 125188 | November 2 | Birth | 1904 – Hugh Lygon, German-English son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (d. 1936) |
| 125189 | November 2 | Birth | 1905 – James Dunn, American actor and singer (d. 1967) |
| 125190 | November 2 | Birth | 1905 – Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (d. 1989) |