November 10: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is November 10th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on November 10th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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November 10th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

November 10th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Francois Couperin, French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist, was born on November 10, 1668. Francois Couperin was known as "Couperin le Grand."

German film director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Patriot, Stargate and Universal Soldier) was born on November 10, 1955.

Sir Jacob Epstein, British-American sculptor (Adam, Ages of Man, Christ, Jacob and the Angel, Lazarus, Madonna and Child, Night and Day, Oscar Wilde Memorial, Social Consciousness, St. Michael's Victory Over the Devil, The Rock Drill, Rush of Green and Venus), was born on November 10, 1880.

British satiric artist William Hogarth (Analysis of Beauty, Captain Coram, Four Stages of Cruelty, Gin Lane, The Harlot's Progress, Marriage a la Mode, The Rake's Progress and The Shrimp Girl) was born on November 10, 1697.

Russian Avant Garde artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on November 10, 1890. El Lissitzky was an architect, designer, photographer and typographer.

Ennio Morricone, Italian film score composer (Algiers, The Bible, Bugsy, Cinema Paradiso, Days of Heaven, Disclosure, Drugs and Blood, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Fateless, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Great Silence, In the Line of Fire, Lolita, Malena, Marco Polo, The Mission, Mission to Mars, Moses, My Name Is Nobody, Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, Slalom, The Thing, The Untouchables, Violent City and Wolf) and honorary Academy Award winner (2007), was born on November 10, 1928.