More Notable Birthdays on November 18: 1946 - Alan Dean Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Midworld, Flinx in Flux 1930 - J. G. Ballard, British Author 1923 - Alan Shepard, American Astronaut 1901 - George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster, Gallup Poll 1787 - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist