- For the 1911 model firearm, see M1911 Colt pistol
Year 1911 (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).
Events of 1911
January 21: first automobile races held in Monte Carlo.
January
- January 1 - Northern Territory is politically separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
- January 3 - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End.
- January 5 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity is founded at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- January 10 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first aerial photograph (over San Diego, California).
- January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- January 21 - First Monte Carlo races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo).
- January 21 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (modern Botswana).
- January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
- January 30 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea, saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
February
- February 11 - Omak, Washington officially became a town in Okanogan County.
- February 18 - First official air mail flight took place in Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carried 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.
March
April
===May===
May 23:
New York Public Library dedication ceremony held.
June
July
July 24: Machu Picchu
August
September
October
November
November 11: Old district of Visoko today: In November 1911 it was almost completely destroyed by fire.
December
December 11: Coronation ceremonies in new capital of India, New Delhi, site of Humayun\'s Tomb
Undated
Ongoing
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 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- January 19 – Ken Nelson, American record producer and music executive (d. 2008)
- 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 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-April
- 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 12 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican president (d. 1979)
- 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 (d. 2007)
- March 16
- March 18 - Al Benton, baseball player (d. 1968)
- 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 24 - Jane Drew, English architect (d. 1996)
- March 25 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
- March 26
- 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
- April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (d. 1980)
- April 13 - William Tuttle, American makeup artist (d. 2007)
- April 15 - Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (d. 1998)
- April 17 - Lester Rodney, American journalist
- April 18
- April 23 - Ronald Neame, British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
- April 26 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
May-June
- 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 24 - Barbara West, Second-to-last living survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
- May 26 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
- May 27
- 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
- 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 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
July-August
- July 1 - Sergei Sokolov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- July 4
- 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
- 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 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
- August 27 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
September-October
- 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 27 - John Harvey, stage and film 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 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 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
- December 13
- 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
Deaths
January - June
- January 17 - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (b. 1822)
- March 1 - Jacobus Henricus van \'t Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- April 10 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 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)
July - December
- 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)
- November 26 - Komura Jutarō, Japanese statesman (b. 1855)
- 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)
Nobel prizes
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