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 |
| 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
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]January
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- 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
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- February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- February 19 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
March
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- October 13 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
- October 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (d. 1972)
November
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- November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (d. 1996)
December
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- December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (d. 1994)
Deaths
[change | change source]- 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