1911
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Years: | 1908 1909 1910 – 1911 – 1912 1913 1914 |
Events
- April 19 – Michel Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose debuts in Monte Carlo with Nijinsky in the title role
- June 13 – Michel Fokine's Petrushka debuts in Paris with Nijinsky in the title role
- December 14 – Roald Amundsen arrived the south pole
Date unknown
- The Secret Garden is published
- Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published
Births
January
Polykarp Kusch
- January 1 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
- January 11 – Zenkō Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
- January 18 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (d. 1987)
- January 22 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
- January 26 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist (d. 1993)
February
Merle Oberon
- February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- February 19 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
March
- March 3 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
- March 12 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
- March 24 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
- March 25 – Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
- March 26 – Tennessee Williams, American writer (d. 1983)
April
Józef Cyrankiewicz
- April 5 – Hedi Amara Nouira, 2nd Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 1993)
- April 8 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
- April 8 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (d. 1997)
- April 20 – Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1995)
- April 23 – Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1989)
May
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- May 17 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (d. 1998)
- May 27 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
- May 27 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
- May 31 – Maurice Allais, French economist (d. 2010)
June
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
- April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (d. 1995)
- June 13 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- June 22 – Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (d. 1937)
- June 24 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
- June 29 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
- June 29 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
July
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- July 5 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
- July 7 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer and librettist (d. 2007)
- July 16 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
- July 17 – Yang Jiang, Chinese writer (d. 2016)
August
- August 5 – Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
- August 6 – Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
- August 11 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
- August 12 – Cantinflas, Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter(d. 1993)
- August 17 – Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (d. 1995)
September
- September 7 – Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (d. 1998)
- September 9 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- September 13 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician (d. 1995)
October
- October 13 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
- October 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (d. 1972)
Deaths
- January 17 – Sir Francis Galton
- March 1 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- April 25 – Emilio Salgari
- May 18 – Gustav Mahler
- May 21 – Williamina Fleming
- May 29 – William S. Gilbert
- June 9 – Carrie Nation
- August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey
- August 8 – William P. Frye
- September 16 – Edward Whymper
- October 7 – John Hughlings Jackson
- October 14 – John Marshall Harlan
- October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer
- October 31 – John Joseph Montgomery
- December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker
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