10 November: today's birthdays

• Rafael Alves dos Santos - Brazilian soccer player
• Olaf Bull - Norwegian poet who mastered literature, philosophy, history, art and science, born Olaf Jacob Martin Luther Breda Bull
• Richard Burton - English film and stage actor, born Richard Walter Jenkins He was married to American actress Elizabeth Taylor. He was nominated seven times, but he never won an Oscar for Best Actor
• François Couperin - French composer, organist and harpsichordist
• Roland Emmerich - German film director and producer
• Neil Gaiman - English writer, screenwriter, journalist, and cartoonist. He is the author of The Sandman and Neverwhere
• Walton Goggins - American actor. He is one of the stars of The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino
• Oliver Goldsmith - Irish writer and dramatist. The vicar of Wakefield (1766) is his major work
• Miranda Lambert - American country singer and songwriter
• Martin Lutero (IT) - German friar and theologian. He initiated the Protestant Reformation
• Martin Luther (D) - German friar and theologian. He initiated the Protestant Reformation
• Ennio Morricone - Italian conductor and composer. He composed the soundtracks of more than 500 films. He won an Honorary Oscar in 2007 and an OScar for Best Score for The Hateful Eight.
• Ellen Pompeo - American actress
• Jacques Rozier - French film director and screenwriter
• Roy Scheider - American actor and amateur boxer. He starred in The French Connection (1971)
• Friedrich Schiller - German poet, philosopher, and playwright, born Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a close friend of his