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1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).
Events
January-June
July-October
July 1 - German Warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers Agadir Crisis escalating pre-WW1 tensions. Subsequent climbdown rallies German militancy.
July 24 - Hiram Bingham finds Machu Picchu
August 8 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law will take effect in 1913 .
August 9 - Raunds , Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), the highest UK temperature until 1990 .
August 10 - British MPs vote to receive salaries for the first time
August 22 - Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in Louvre (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913)
September 7 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. He is later released.
September 11 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
September 20 - The liner RMS Olympic , sister ship to the RMS Titanic , collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton, England.
September 29 - French navy ship Liberte explodes anchored in Toulon
October 6 - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England .
October 10 - Wuchang Uprising which led to the founding of the Republic of China .
October 10 - Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada 's eighth prime minister .
October 16 - Felipe Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz , occupies the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against Madero
October 18 - revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China 's Manchu dynasty.
October 28 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship 's international headquarters at Mount Ecclesia , Oceanside (California ); It had been preceded by its formal constitution in August 8 , 1909 at Seattle (Washington ).
November-December
Unknown dates
Births
January-March
January 1 - Hank Greenberg , baseball player (d. 1986 )
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 22 - Bruno Kreisky , Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990 )
January 24 - C. L. Moore , American writer (d. 1987 )
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 19 - Merle Oberon , British actress (d. 1979 )
March 3 - Jean Harlow , American actress (d. 1937 )
March 8 - Alan Hovhaness , American composer (d. 2000 )
March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard , American author (d. 1986 )
March 16 - Josef Mengele , Nazi Germany war criminal (d. 1979 )
March 20 - Alfonso García Robles , Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1991 )
March 24 - Joseph Barbera , American cartoonist
March 25 - Jack Ruby , American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967 )
March 26 - Tennessee Williams , American playwright (d. 1983 )
March 29 - Brigitte Horney , German-born actress (d. 1988 )
March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer , Alsatian soprano (d. 1986 )
April-June
April 5 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
April 8 - Melvin Calvin , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997 )
April 8 - Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995 )
April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz , Polish-born runner(d. 1980 )
April 26 - Marianne Hoppe , German actress (d. 2002 )
May 8 - Robert Johnson , American guitarist and singer (d. 1938 )
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 26 - Ben Alexander , American actor (d. 1969 )
May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey , U.S. Vice President and Senator (d. 1978 )
May 27 - Teddy Kollek , Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem
May 27 - Vincent Price , American actor (d. 1993 )
May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian author (d. 1986 )
May 31 - Maurice Allais , French economicst, Nobel Prize laureate
June 13 - Luis Alvarez , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )
June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentine race car driver (d. 1995 )
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 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004 )
June 29 - Bernard Herrmann , American composer (d. 1975 )
June 30 - Czesław Miłosz , Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
July-September
July 4 - Mitch Miller , American singer and television personality
July 9 - Mervyn Peake , British writer and illustrator (d. 1968 )
July 16 - Ginger Rogers , American actress (d. 1995 )
July 18 - Hume Cronyn , Canadian actor (d. 2003 )
July 21 - Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author (d. 1980 )
July 27 - Lupita Tovar , Mexican actress
August 9 - William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
August 12 - Jane Wyatt , American actress
August 14 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi , Indian yogi
August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik , Russian chess player (d. 1995 )
August 23 - Betty Robinson , American athelete (d. 1999 )
August 23 - Birger Ruud , Norwegian athelete (d. 1998 )
August 27 - Kay Walsh , British actress (d. 2005 )
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 19 - William Golding , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
September 23 - Frank Moss , U.S. Senator from Utah (d. 2003 )
October-December
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 26 - Sid Gillman , American football coach (d. 2003 )
October 30 - Ruth Hussey , American actress (d. 2005 )
November 2 - Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
November 5 - Roy Rogers , American singer and actor (d. 1998 )
November 27 - David Merrick , Broadway producer (d. 2000 )
December 3 - Nino Rota , Italian composer (d. 1979 )
December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
December 13 - Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
Decmeber 13 - Kenneth Patchen , American poet and painter (d. 1972 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
March 1 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
April 25 - Emilio Salgari , Italian writer (b. 1862 )
May 18 - Gustav Mahler , Austrian composer (b. 1860 )
May 21 - Williamina Fleming , Scottish astronomer (b. 1857 )
May 29 - William S. Gilbert , English dramatist (b. 1836 )
June 9 - Carrie Nation , American temperance activist (b. 1846 )
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 14 - John Marshall Harlan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833 )
October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born newspaper publisher and journalist (b. 1847 )
December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist (b. 1817 )
Nobel Prizes
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