Title: 1911 Content: 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. == 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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) === November === * November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (d. 1996) === December === * December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (d. 1994) == 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