1911

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1908 1909 1910 – 1911 – 1912 1913 1914

1911 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1911 MCMXI
Ab urbe condita	2664
Armenian calendar	1360 ԹՎ ՌՅԿ
Assyrian calendar	6661
Bahá'í calendar	67–68
Balinese saka calendar	1832–1833
Bengali calendar	1318
Berber calendar	2861
British Regnal year	1 Geo. 5 – 2 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2455
Burmese calendar	1273
Byzantine calendar	7419–7420
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4607 or 4547     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4608 or 4548
Coptic calendar	1627–1628
Discordian calendar	3077
Ethiopian calendar	1903–1904
Hebrew calendar	5671–5672
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1967–1968
- Shaka Samvat	1832–1833
- Kali Yuga	5011–5012
Holocene calendar	11911
Igbo calendar	911–912
Iranian calendar	1289–1290
Islamic calendar	1329–1330
Japanese calendar	Meiji 44 (明治４４年)
Javanese calendar	1840–1841
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4244
Minguo calendar	1 before ROC 民前1年
Nanakshahi calendar	443
Thai solar calendar	2453–2454
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 2037 or 1656 or 884     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 2038 or 1657 or 885

1911 (MCMXI) 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 (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) 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.

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

Zenkō Suzuki

Danny Kaye

Bruno Kreisky

Polykarp Kusch

• 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

Ronald Reagan

Merle Oberon

• February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
• February 19 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)

March

Jean Harlow

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

Joseph Barbera

Jack Ruby

Tennessee Williams

• 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

Emil Cioran

Melvin Calvin

Józef Cyrankiewicz

• 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

Vincent Price

Hubert Humphrey

Maurice Allais

• 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

Milovan Đilas

Luis Walter Alvarez

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark

Juan Manuel Fangio

Bernard Herrmann

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

• 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

Georges Pompidou

Gian Carlo Menotti

Ginger Rogers

• 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

Robert Taylor

Lucille Ball

Thanom Kittikachorn

Cantinflas

Mikhail Botvinnik

• 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

Todor Zhivkov

John Gorton

• 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)
• September 24 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet Politician (d. 1985)

October

Mahalia Jackson

• October 13 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
• October 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (d. 1972)

November

Odysseas Elytis

• November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (d. 1996)

December

Niels Kaj Jerne

• 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