1911

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 Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published
Births
January
January 1 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
January 11 - Zenko 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 Diaz 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 - Jozef 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 Dilas, 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