1911
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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
