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Also Born on October 10

• Jean-Antoine Watteau
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• Henry Cavendish
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• Benjamin West
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• Giuseppe Verdi
  composer of opera (1813)
• Robert Gould Shaw
  soldier, Civil War figure (1837)
• Helen Hayes
  actress (1900)
• Alberto Giacometti
  sculptor (1901)
• R. K. Narayan
  novelist (1906)
• Thelonious Monk
  jazz pianist (1917)
• Harold Pinter
  dramatist (1930)
• Ben Vereen
  actor, dancer (1946)
• Amanda Burton
  actor (1956)
• Tanya Tucker
  country singer (1958)
• Brett Favre
  football player (1969)
• Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  auto racer (1974)
• Mya
  singer, actor (1979)

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Although he wrote the screenplays for a number of acclaimed films, including The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), and To Sir With Love (1967), he is best known for his epic novels. His novels set in the Far East include King Rat (1962), Taipan (1966), Shogun (1975), and Noble House (1981), many of which were made into movies.