Year (''' MCMXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
: first automobile races held in Monte Carlo .]]
''': New York Public Library dedication ceremony held.]]
: '''Old district of Visoko today; In fire it was almost completely burned]]
''': Coronation ceremonies in new capital of India , New Delhi , site of Humayun's Tomb ]]
- First Urdu language typewriter made available.
- In Canada , the Dominion Parks Branch was established (now Parks Canada ), the world's first national park service. In 1911 it fell under the Department of the Interior, and now resides within the Department of the Environment.
- Appleby College , a Canadaian University-preparatory Schools , is founded.
- First Solvay Congress - meeting of physicists
- University Of Iceland founded
- The Pan Sophic Club, Pennsylvania 's oldest independent fraternity, is founded at Grove City College in Grove City, PA .
- University Of Wales, Bangor moves to new buildings.
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica published.
- Rutherford deduces the existence of a Compact Atomic Nucleus from Scattering Experiments .
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers Superconductivity .
- In France the Champagne Riots , in which growers disputed the precise limits of the Champagne region.
- The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux is first translated into English.
- Southern Methodist University was founded in Dallas Texas.One of the few universities in US which have an endowment over $1bn.
- January 1
- --- Roman Totenberg , Polish-American violinist
- --- Hank Greenberg , baseball player (d. 1986 )
- January 3 - John Sturges , American film director (d. 1982 )
- January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (d. 2001 )
- January 7 - Butterfly McQueen , American actress (d. 1995 )
- January 11 - Zenko Suzuki , Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 2004 )
- January 13 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen , Premier of Queensland (d. 2005 )
- January 17 - George Joseph Stigler , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- January 22 - Bruno Kreisky , Chancellor Of Austria (d. 1990 )
- January 24 - C. L. Moore , American writer (d. 1987 )
- January 25 - Kurt Maetzig , German director
- January 26 - Polykarp Kusch , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
- January 27 - Cornelia Hubertina Doff French author of Dutch origin known as Neel Doff , nominee of the 1911 Prix Goncourt (d. 1942 )
- January 29 - Peter Von Siemens , German industrialist (d. 1986 )
- January 30 - Roy Eldridge , American jazz musician (d. 1989 )
- February 5 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan , United States President (d. 2004 )
- February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop , American poet (d. 1979 )
- February 12 - Stephen H. Sholes , American recording executive (d. 1968 )
- February 14 - Willem Johan Kolff , Dutch inventor of hemodialysis
- February 17 - Oskar Seidlin , Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. 1984 )
- February 19 - Merle Oberon , British actress (d. 1979 )
- February 28 - Otakar Vávra , Czech director
- March 3 - Jean Harlow , American actress (d. 1937 )
- March 6 - Nikolai Baibakov , Soviet statesman
- March 8 - Alan Hovhaness , American composer (d. 2000 )
- March 9 - Ebby Halliday , American realtor
- March 11 - Leland C. Buxton , Indiana State Representative (d. 1984 )
- March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard , American author (d. 1986 )
- March 13 - Marie Rudisill , American author and Fruitcake Lady (d. 2006 )
- March 15 - Ursula Vaughan Williams , British author
- March 16
- --- Pierre Harmel , Belgian Prime minister
- --- Josef Mengele , Nazi Germany war criminal (d. 1979 )
- March 20 - Alfonso García Robles , Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1991 )
- March 24 - Joseph Barbera , American cartoonist (d. 2006 )
- March 25 - Jack Ruby , American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967 )
- March 26
- --- Bernard Katz , German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2003 )
- --- Tennessee Williams , American playwright (d. 1983 )
- March 27 - Erich Heller , British philosopher, long resident in the U.S. (d. 1990 )
- March 29 - Brigitte Horney , German-born actress (d. 1988 )
- March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer , Alsatian soprano (d. 1986 )
- March 31 - Freddie Green , Jazz Guitarist (d. 1987 )
- April 3 - Michael Woodruff , British/Australian pioneering Transplant surgeon (d. 2001 )
- April 5 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
- April 6 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1979 )
- April 8
- --- Melvin Calvin , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997 )
- --- Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995 )
- April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz , Polish-born runner (d. 1980 )
- April 13 - William Tuttle , American makeup artist
- April 15 - Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy , Egyptian Muslim Jurist (d. 1998 )
- April 17 - Lester Rodney , American journalist
- April 18
- --- Maurice Goldhaber , Austrian-American physicist
- --- Huntington Hartford , American businessman and heir to A&P
- April 23 - Ronald Neame , British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
- April 26 - Marianne Hoppe , German actress (d. 2002 )
- May 1 - Anthony Salerno , member of the U.S. La Cosa Nostra and a leader in the Genovese Family (d. 1992 )
- May 5 - Andor Lilienthal , Hungarian Chess Grandmaster
- May 8 - Robert Johnson , American guitarist and singer (d. 1938 )
- May 10 - Bel Kaufman , German born American author
- May 11 - Phil Silvers , American actor and comedian (d. 1985 )
- May 11 - Doodles Weaver , American actor and comedian (d. 1983 )
- May 15 - Max Frisch , Swiss author (d. 1991 )
- May 17 - Lisa Fonssagrives , Swedish model (d. 1992 )
- May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan , Irish actress (d. 1998 )
- May 18 - Big Joe Turner , American singer (d. 1985 )
- May 20 - Gardner Fox , American writer (d. 1986 )
- May 20 - Milt Gabler , American record producer (d. 2001 )
- May 22 - Anatol Rapoport , Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. 2007 )
- May 24 - Carleen Hutchins , American violin maker
- May 26 - Ben Alexander , American actor (d. 1969 )
- May 27
- --- Hubert H. Humphrey , U.S. Vice President and Senator (d. 1978 )
- --- Teddy Kollek , Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007 )
- --- Vincent Price , American actor (d. 1993 )
- May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian author (d. 1986 )
- May 31 - Maurice Allais , French eeconomist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 13 - Luis Alvarez , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )
- June 15 - W.V. Awdry , English children's writer (d. 1997 )
- June 20 - Paul Pietsch , German racer and magazine magnate
- June 24
- --- Ernesto Sabato , Argentine writer
- --- Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentine race car driver (d. 1995 )
- June 25 - William Howard Stein , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )
- June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete and golfer (d. 1956 )
- June 29
- --- Prince Bernhard Of The Netherlands (d. 2004 )
- --- Bernard Herrmann , American composer (d. 1975 )
- June 30 - Czesław Miłosz , Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
- July 1 - Sergei Sokolov , Marshal of the Soviet Union
- July 4
- --- Mitch Miller , American singer and television personality
- --- Frederick Seitz , American scientist
- July 6 - LaVerne Andrews , member of the 1940s Big Band / Swing group The Andrews Sisters is born in Mound , Minnesota (d. 1967 )
- July 7 - Gian-Carlo Menotti , Italian born American composer (d. 2007 )
- July 9
- --- John Archibald Wheeler , American physicist
- --- Mervyn Peake , British writer and illustrator (d. 1968 )
- July 16
- --- Jerry Burke , American musician (d. 1965 )
- --- Ginger Rogers , American actress (d. 1995 )
- July 17 - Ted Anderson , English footballer (d. 1979 )
- July 18 - Hume Cronyn , Canadian actor (d. 2003 )
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author (d. 1980 )
- July 27 - Lupita Tovar , Mexican actress
- August 6 - Lucille Ball , American actress (d. 1989 )
- August 9 - William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- August 11 - William H. Avery , American politician
- August 12 - Jane Wyatt , American actress (d. 2006 )
- August 14 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi , Indian yogi (d. 2006 )
- August 18 - Amelia Boynton Robinson , American civil rights activist
- August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik , Russian chess player (d. 1995 )
- August 23
- --- Betty Robinson , American athlete (d. 1999 )
- --- Birger Ruud , Norwegian athlete (d. 1998 )
- August 27 - Kay Walsh , British actress (d. 2005 )
- September 2 - Floyd Council , American musician (d. 1976 )
- September 6 - Harry Danning , baseball player (d. 2004 )
- September 9 - John Gorton , nineteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 2002 )
- September 15 - Joseph Pevney , American director
- September 19 - William Golding , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
- September 20 - Shriram Sharma Acharya , founder of All world Gayatri Pariwar (d. 1990 )
- September 23 - Frank Moss , U.S. Senator from Utah (d. 2003 )
- September 24 - Herbert Jeffreys , American singer and actor
- September 29 - Charles Court , Australian politician
- October 5
- --- Flann O'Brien , Irish humorist (d. 1966 )
-- Pierre Dansereau , Canadian ecologist
- October 9 - Joe Rosenthal , American photographer (d. 2006 )
- October 10 - Clare Hollingworth , British journalist
- October 13 - Ashok Kumar , Indian actor (d. 2001 )
- October 14 - Le Duc Tho , Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990 )
- October 15 - James H. Schmitz , German-born American science fiction writer (d. 1981 )
- October 26 - Sid Gillman , American football coach (d. 2003 )
- October 30 - Ruth Hussey , American actress (d. 2005 )
- November 1
- --- Sidney Wood , American tennis player
- --- Henri Troyat , French writer (d. 2007 )
- November 2 - Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- November 5 - Roy Rogers , American singer and actor (d. 1998 )
- November 12 - Chad Varah , British priest and humanitarian
- November 13 - Buck O'Neil , American baseball player and manager (d. 2006 )
- November 24 - Erik Bergman , Finnish composer (d. 2006 )
- November 27 - David Merrick , American theater producer (d. 2000 )
- November 28 – Václav Renč , Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d. 1973 )
- December 3 - Nino Rota , Italian composer (d. 1979 )
- December 8 - Lee J. Cobb , American actor (d. 1976 )
- December 11
- --- Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006 )
- --- Val Guest , British film director (d. 2006 )
- December 13
- --- Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
- --- Kenneth Patchen , American poet and painter (d. 1972 )
- December 18 - Jules Dassin , American director
- December 20 - Hortense Calisher , American author
- December 21 - Josh Gibson , baseball player (d. 1947 )
- December 23 - Niels Kaj Jerne , English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1994 )
- December 25 - Louise Bourgeois , French born American artist
- December 27 - Anna Russell , British comedian and singer (d. 2006 )
- December 30 - Jeanette Nolan , American actress (d. 1998 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Yolande Beekman , French-born World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- --- Jaime Ornelas Camacho , Portuguese-born politician
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- July 2 - Clement A. Evans , Confederate general (b. 1833 )
- July 15 - Louisa Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire (b. 1832 )
- July 16 - August Harambašić , Croatian writer (b. 1861 )
- August 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey , American painter (b. 1852 )
- August 8 - William P. Frye , U.S. Senator (b. 1830 )
- September 16 - Edward Whymper , British explorer (b. 1840 )
- October 7 - John Hughlings Jackson , English neurologist (b. 1835 )
- October 14 - John Marshall Harlan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833 )
- October 24 - Ida Lewis , lighthouse keeper (b. 1842 )
- October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born newspaper publisher and journalist (b. 1847 )
- October 31 - John Joseph Montgomery , American glider pioneer (b. 1858 )
- December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist (b. 1817 )
- December 25 - Arthur F. Griffith , American calculating prodigy (b. 1880 )
- ''date unknown'' - William George Aston , British consular official (b. 1841 )
The following are references to year 1911 in fiction:
- Harry Bailey, the younger brother of George Bailey in the film '' It's A Wonderful Life '' (1946).
- B.J. Blazkowicz, main character of Wolfenstein 3D (1993) and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)
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