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Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar. Events July 24: Machu Picchu is rediscovered. January February March April May June July August September October November December Date unknown Births January–February - January 1
- 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
- January 18 – Jos Mar a Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969)
- January 19
- January 20 – Wendell J. Westcott, American carillonneur (d. 2010)
- January 22
- 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 28 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician
- January 29 – Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
- January 30 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
- January 31 – Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981)
- February 5 – Jussi Bj rling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
- February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)
- February 11 – Cearbhall D laigh (Carroll Daly), fifth president of Ireland (d. 1978)
- February 12 – Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
- February 13 – Jean Muir, American actress (d. 1996)
- February 14
- February 17
- February 19 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
- February 28 – Otakar V vra, Czech director (d. 2011)
March–April - March 3 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
- March 6 – Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet statesman (d. 2008)
- March 8 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
- March 9 – Ebby Halliday, American realtor
- March 12 – Gustavo D az Ordaz, Mexican president (d. 1979)
- March 13
- March 15 – Ursula Vaughan Williams, British author (d. 2007)
- March 16
- March 18 – Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
- March 20 – Alfonso Garc a Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- March 24
- March 25 – Jack Ruby, American mobster, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
- March 26
- March 27 – Erich Heller, British philosopher (d. 1990)
- March 29 – Brigitte Horney, German-born actress (d. 1988)
- March 31
- April 3 – Michael Woodruff, British/Australian surgeon (d. 2001)
- April 6 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- April 8
- April 11 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born athlete (d. 1980)
- April 13 – William J. Tuttle, American makeup artist (d. 2007)
- April 15 – Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian jurist (d. 1998)
- April 17 – Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009)
- April 18
- April 23 – Ronald Neame, British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (d. 2010)
- April 26 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
May–June - May 1 – Anthony Salerno, American gangster (d. 1992)
- May 5 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian Chess Grandmaster (d. 2010)
- May 6 – Frank Nelson, American actor (d. 1986)
- May 7 – Ishir Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
- May 8 – Robert Johnson, American guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
- May 10 – Bel Kaufman, German-born American author
- May 11
- May 14 – Ne Win, President of Burma (d. 2002)
- May 15 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
- May 17
- May 18 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (d. 1985)
- May 20
- May 22 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. 2007)
- May 24 Carleen Hutchins, American violin maker (d. 2009)
- May 26 – Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
- May 27
- May 28 – Fritz Hochw lder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
- May 31 – Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- June 3 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
- June 11 – George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
- June 12 – Milovan ilas, Yugoslavian Marxist (d. 1995)
- June 13
- June 15 – W.V. Awdry, English children's writer (d. 1997)
- June 20 – Paul Pietsch, German racer and magazine magnate
- June 21 – Wonderful Smith, African-American comedian (d. 2008)
- June 24
- 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
- June 30 – Czes aw Mi osz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
July–August - July 1 – Sergei Sokolov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- July 4
- July 5 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
- July 6 – LaVerne Andrews, American singer (d. 1967)
- July 7 – Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italian-born American composer (d. 2007)
- July 9
- July 16
- 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 28 – Ann Doran, American actress (d. 2000)
- July 29 – J n Cikker, Slovak composer (d. 1989)
- July 31 – George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
- August 2 – Rusty Wescoatt, American actor (d. 1987)
- August 3 – Manuel Esper n, Mexican musician and composer (d. 2011)
- August 5 – Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
- August 6
- August 7 – Nicholas Ray, American director (d. 1979)
- August 8 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
- August 9 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- August 10 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
- August 11 – William H. Avery, American politician (d. 2009)
- August 12 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
- August 17
- August 18 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, American civil rights activist
- August 23
- August 27 – Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
September–October - September 2 – Floyd Council, American musician (d. 1976)
- September 6 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- September 7 – Todor Zhivkov, President of Bulgaira (d. 1998)
- September 9 – John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- September 13 – Bill Monroe, American musician (d. 1996)
- September 15 – Joseph Pevney, American director (d. 2008)
- September 19 – William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- September 20 – Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian religious leader (d. 1990)
- September 23 – Frank Moss, American politician (d. 2003)
- September 24
- September 27 – John Harvey, American actor (d. 1982)
- September 29 – Charles Court, Australian politician (d. 2007)
- October 5
- 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 27 – Leif Erickson, American actor (d. 1986)
- October 30 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
November–December - November 1
- 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 (d. 2007)
- November 13 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (d. 2006)
- November 24 – Erik Bergman, Finnish composer (d. 2006)
- November 25 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
- November 27
- November 28 – V clav Ren , Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d. 1973)
- December 3 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
- December 5 – W adys aw Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoirist (d. 2000)
- December 8 – Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
- December 11
- December 13
- December 18 – Jules Dassin, American director (d. 2008)
- December 20 – Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009)
- December 21 – Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (d. 1947)
- December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- December 25 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American artist (d. 2010)
- December 26 – Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
- December 27 – Anna Russell, British comedian and singer (d. 2006)
- December 30 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
Date unknown Deaths January–June - January 17 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (b. 1822)
- February 4 – Piet Cronj , Boer general (b. 1836)
- February 15 – Theodor Escherich, German-Austrian pediatrician (b. 1857)
- February 21 – Isidre Nonell, Catalonian painter (b. 1873)
- March 1 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- April 10 – Mikalojus Konstantinas iurlionis, Lithuanian artist and composer (b. 1875)
- April 25 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (b. 1862)
- April 29 – Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1846)
- May 18 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- May 21 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857)
- May 27 – Thursday October Christian II, Pitcairn Islands leader (b. 1820)
- May 29 – William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
- June 2 – Axel Olof Freudenthal, philologist and politician (b. 1836)
- June 9 – Carrie Nation, American temperance activist (b. 1846)
- June 25 – Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (b. 1843)
July–December - July 2 – Clement A. Evans, Confederate general (b. 1833)
- July 15 – Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (b. 1832)
- July 16 – August Haramba i , Croatian writer (b. 1861)
- August 1
- August 8 – William P. Frye, U.S. Senator (b. 1830)
- August 12 – Jules Brunet, French military leader (b. 1838)
- September 16 – Edward Whymper, British explorer (b. 1840)
- October 2 – Winfield Scott Schley, American admiral (b. 1839)
- October 7
- October 14 – John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
- October 19 – Eugene Ely, pioneer aviator (b. 1886)
- 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)
- November 9 – Howard Pyle, American artist and fictional writer (b. 1853)
- November 22 – William George Aston, British consular official (b. 1841)
- November 23 – Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1865)
- November 26 – Komura Jutar , Japanese statesman (b. 1855)
- December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
- December 22 – Odilon Lannelongue, French surgeon (b. 1840)
- December 25 – Arthur F. Griffith, American calculating prodigy (b. 1880)
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