Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 18

Births

• 1787 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
• 1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Imogene Coca, American actress and comedienne (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998) (pictured)
• 1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
• 1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor

Deaths

• 1886 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• 1922 – Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
• 1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
• 2002 – James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)