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1911
1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).
Events
January-June
July-October
November-December
unknown dates
Births
January-March
- January 1 - Hank Greenberg, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1986)
- January 3 - John Sturges, American film director (d. 1982)
- January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (d. 1995)
- January 22 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
- January 29 - Peter von Siemens, industrialist (d. 1986)
- January 30 - Roy Eldridge, jazz musician (d. 1989)
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan, United States President, actor (d. 2004)
- February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1979)
- February 8 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (d. 1985)
- February 11 - Alec Cairncross , chancellor of the University of Glasgow
- February 12 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
- February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979)
- March 3 - Jean Harlow, actress (d. 1937)
- March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, author (d. 1986)
- March 16 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
- March 24 - Joseph Barbera, cartoonist
- March 25 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
- March 26 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (d. 1983)
- March 29 - Brigitte Horney , actress (d. 1988)
- March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (d. 1986)
April-June
- April 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
- April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
- April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter (d. 1980)
- April 26 - Marianne Hoppe, actress
- May 8 - Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
- May 11 - Phil Silvers, actor, comedian (d. 1985)
- May 15 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
- May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
- May 18 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (d. 1985)
- May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt , Dutch children books writer
- May 20 - Gardner Fox, writer (d. 1986)
- May 26 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
- May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and Senator (d. 1978)
- May 27 - Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem
- May 27 - Vincent Price, actor (d. 1993)
- May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, author (d. 1986)
- June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian, race car driver (d. 1995)
- June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
July-September
- July 4 - Mitch Miller, singer, television personality
- July 9 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
- July 16 - Ginger Rogers, US actress (d. 1995)
- July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (d. 2003)
- June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (d. 1975)
- June 30 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (d. August 14, 2004)
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author (d. 1980)
- September 2 - Floyd Council, U.S. blues musician, Pink Floyd was named after him (d. 1976)
- September 6 - Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher (d. 2004)
- September 9 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- September 23 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator Utah (d. 2003)
October-December
unknown dates
Deaths
- February 11 - Albert von Rothschild , Austrian baron and banker.
- March 1 - J. H. van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1852)
- May 18 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- May 21 - Williamina Fleming, astronomer (b. 1857)
- May 29 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
- June 9 - Carrie Nation, American advocate of temperance movement (b. 1846)
- August 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
- September 16 - Edward Whymper, British explorer (b. 1840)
- October 14 - John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court justice (b. 1833)
- October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist (b. 1847)
- December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (b. 1817)
See also
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