page_title: 1911
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1911 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: Mario Moreno "Cantinflas"
context_page_description: 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  A highlight was the race for the South Pole.
context_section_description: August 2 – Rusty Wescoatt, American actor (d. 1987)
  August 3 – Manuel Esperón, Mexican musician, composer (d. 2011)
  August 5 – Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
  August 6
  Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and co-owner of Desilu Productions (d. 1989)
  Constance Fecher Heaven, British romance writer (d. 1995)
  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
  Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2011)
  A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
  August 11
  William H. Avery, American politician (d. 2009)
  Thanom Kittikachorn, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
  August 12 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
  August 13 – Roy Pinney, American herpetologist, photographer, war correspondent and writer (d. 2010)
  August 14 – Vethathiri Maharishi, spiritual leader, founder of the World Community Service Center (WCSC) (d. 2006)
  August 15 – Anthony Salerno, American gangster (d. 1992)
  August 17
  Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
  Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010)
  August 18 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015)
  August 23
  Betty Robinson, American Olympic athlete (d. 1999)
  Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
  August 25 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, General of the Vietnam People's Army (d. 2013)
  August 26 – Deva Dassy, French opera singer (d. 2016)
  August 29 – John Charnley, English orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer of hip replacement operation (d. 1982)
  August 31 – Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (d. 1996)
caption: Cantinflas
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