Born Richard Walter Jenkins on November 10, 1925, in Pontrhydfen, South Wales, Richard Burton became an acclaimed actor of stage and screen, appearing in over 40 films. He earned seven Oscar nominations for films including Equus, The Robe, Becket and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He married Elizabeth Taylor in 1964, a stormy relationship that resulted in marriage, remarriage and two divorces. Burton died in Switzerland, on August 5, 1984. 

He was the son of a coal miner, a twelfth child whose mother died when he was two years old. A local teacher, Philip Burton, became his guardian and encouraged the boy into acting and the theatre. Jenkins adopted Burton as his surname, won an Oxford scholarship and served in the Air Force during WWII. After leaving the forces in 1947, he resumed his stage acting career, appearing in The Lady’s Not for Burning with Sir John Gielgud. Burton made his film debut in 1949 in The Last Days of Dolwyn. He married actress Sybil Williams and had two daughters. 

 Burton met Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra (1963), and although each was married at the time, they began a tempestuous relationship that was to provide ample media interest in the years to come. They made 11 films together, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Taming of the Shrew (1967). Burton appeared in Hamlet on Broadway in a 1964 production directed by Gielgud and continued to appear in films.

After a divorce, remarriage and a second divorce from Taylor, Burton married model Suzy Hunt in 1976. During the 1970s, Burton continued to make films, including Brief Encounter (1975) and was nominated for his seventh Oscar for his role in the 1977 drama Equus. 

In 1983, he and Taylor returned to working together for the Noel Coward theatrical work Private Lives. Burton's last film was an adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Burton died from a brain haemorrhage in his Swiss home onAugust 5, 1984, at the age of 58.   

   "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" the now-famous greeting, was allegedly uttered by Henry Morton Stanley on 10th November 1871, upon finding missionary and explorer David Livingstone. 

Born as John Rowlands in Denbigh (28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904), Stanley was a journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for Livingstone. He was knighted in 1899. 

After a period in St. Asaph Union Workhouse for the poor, he travelled to the United States in 1859 where he was befriended by Henry Hope Stanley, a wealthy trader whose name he eventually adopted. During the American Civil War, he fought first for the Confederate Army in the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. After being taken prisoner, he joined the Union Army, then served on several merchant ships before joining the Navy in July 1864.

 When the war ended, Stanley became a journalist, organising an abortive expedition to the Ottoman Empire during which Stanley was imprisoned. He talked his way out of jail and was even compensated for damage to expedition equipment.

He travelled widely in Asia as an overseas correspondent for the newly-established New York Herald and in 1869, Stanley was given the task of finding the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who had travelled to Africa but had not been heard from for some time. 

Stanley travelled to Zanzibar and kitted an expedition accompanied by 200 porters. During the 700-mile expedition through the tropical forest, his horse died after a bite from a tsetse fly, many of his porters abandoned him and most who remained were stricken with tropical diseases. On 10th November 1871, Stanley came across Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in what is now Tanzania, greeting him, reputedly, with "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"  Stanley joined Livingstone's exploration of the region, and wrote a book about his adventures on his return, entitled "How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa".

Giro City, is a November 1982 film which was written and directed by Karl Francis, the renowned former journalist and film-maker from Bedwas, near Caerphilly. 

 Also known by the title And Nothing But the Truth, the film is a blistering indictment of government-sanctioned corruption, as well as the "facts of life" of the television industry.  

Today is the feast day of St Elaeth 

Elaeth (sometimes recorded as Eleth), now venerated as a saint, was a British king and poet from the 6th century. He was ousted from his lands in the north of Britain and retreated to Anglesey, where he sought refuge at the monastery run by St Seiriol at Penmon.  Some fragments of religious poetry from the period have been ascribed to him, and it is widely held that he founded St Eleth's Church near Amlwch, on Anglesey. 

Maria Jane Williams (died 10 November 1873) was a 19th-century Welsh musician and folklorist. She was born in Glynneath in 1794 at Aberpergwm House.

She received a good education, was a fervent supporter of the Welsh language and Welsh traditions and was a gifted musician. She was renowned for her singing and acquired the name ‘Llinos’ (the Welsh word for linnet).

In 1844, she published a collection of Welsh airs entitled 'The Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg’, which has been acknowledged as a significant contribution to the knowledge of traditional Welsh music.

Robert Nicholas Jones (born 10 November 1965 at Trebanos) is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. During his playing career, he was capped 54 times for Wales. He joins Mike Phillips, Dwayne Peel, Gareth Edwards and Rob Howley as the only scrum half players to have been awarded more than 50 caps for Wales.