November 10
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Art and culture
- 1960 - Penguin's first run of Lady Chatterley's Lover - a total of 200,000 copies - sells out on the first day of publication.
- 1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
Births
- 1483 - Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
- 1697 - William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
- 1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
- 1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
- 1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
- 1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer
Deaths
- 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
- 1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
- 2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
- 2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
Notes
- 1483 - Jim Haynes
- 1483 - Cy Endfield
- 1483 - Comte de Lautréamont
- 1483 - James Broughton
- 1483 - Fornasetti
- 1483 - Jacques Kets
- 1483 - Anicée Alvina
- 1483 - Otto Flake
- 1483 - Théophile Steinlen
- 1483 - René Wellek
- 1483 - Rémy Belvaux
- 1483 - Victor Young
- 1483 - Dennis Wheatley
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