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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Events by month|1911}} {{About year|1911|the film|1911 (film)|the handgun|M1911 pistol}} {{Year nav|1911}} {{C20 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1911}} {{TOC limit|2}} [[File:Fashion_sketch_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_women_attending_the_St._Louis_Veiled_Prophet_Ball_in_1911.jpg|thumb|Sketch by [[Marguerite Martyn]] of 1911 women's fashion styles]] == Events == === January === {{Main|January 1911}} [[File:Siege of Sidney Street – Churchill.jpg|thumb|right|[[January 3]]: [[Siege of Sidney Street]] in London]] * [[January 1]] – A decade after federation, the [[Northern Territory]] and the [[Australian Capital Territory]] are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * [[January 3]] ** [[1911 Kebin earthquake]]: An earthquake of 7.7 [[Moment magnitude scale|moment magnitude]] strikes near [[Almaty]] in [[Russian Turkestan]], killing 450 or more people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake|work=[[Pittsburgh Press]]|date=1911-01-05|page=1}}</ref> ** [[Siege of Sidney Street]] in London: Two [[Latvian people|Latvian]] anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. [[Home Secretary]] [[Winston Churchill]] arrives to oversee events. * [[January 4]] – [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: [[Robert Falcon Scott]]'s British [[Terra Nova Expedition|''Terra Nova'' Expedition]] to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at [[Cape Evans]] on [[Ross Island]]. * [[January 5]] – Egypt's [[Zamalek SC]] is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer [[George Merzbach]] as Qasr El Nile Club. * [[January 14]] – [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: [[Roald Amundsen]]'s Norwegian South Pole expedition arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at the [[Bay of Whales]] on the eastern edge of the [[Ross Ice Shelf]]. * [[January 18]] – [[Eugene B. Ely]] lands on the deck of the [[USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4)|USS ''Pennsylvania'']] stationed in [[San Francisco]] harbor, the first time an aircraft has landed on a ship. * [[January 26]] – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement. * First [[Monte Carlo Rally]] inaugurated. === February === {{Main|February 1911}} * [[February 5]] ** The [[Missouri State Capitol]] building in [[Jefferson City, Missouri]] is destroyed by fire after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome. ** The revolution in [[Haiti]] is suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, is captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard is executed two days later.<ref name="AROR March 1911">{{cite journal|title=Record of Current Events|journal=The American Monthly Review of Reviews|date=March 1911|pages=287–290}}</ref> * [[February 17]] – The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs, when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between [[Petaluma]] and [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]], California. * [[February 18]] ** The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place in British India from [[Allahabad]] to [[Naini]] when [[Henri Pequet]] carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km. ** A serious earthquake causes a landslide that creates [[Lake Sarez]] in modern-day [[Tajikistan]]. === March === {{Main|March 1911}} * [[March 19]] – [[International Women's Day]] is celebrated for the first time across Europe.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Temma|last=Kaplan|title=On the Socialist Origins of International Women's Day|journal=Feminist Studies|volume=11|issue=1|date=Spring 1985|pages=163–171|doi=10.2307/3180144|jstor=3180144}}</ref> * [[March 25]] – The [[Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire]] in New York City kills 146 people. * [[March 29]] – The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the [[M1911]], designed by [[John Browning]] (it remains the U.S. service pistol for 74 years). === April === {{Main|April 1911}} * [[April 3]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the première of his [[Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 4]], in [[Helsinki]]. * [[April 8]] – [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers [[superconductivity]]; he presents his findings on [[April 28]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=van Delft, D.|author2=Kes, P.|title=The discovery of superconductivity|journal=Physics Today|volume=63|issue=9|date=September 2010|pages=38–43|doi=10.1063/1.3490499|bibcode=2010PhT....63i..38V|doi-access=free}}</ref> * [[April 13]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: Rebels take [[Agua Prieta]] on the [[Sonora]]–[[Arizona]] border; government troops take the town back [[April 17]], when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk. * [[April 18]] – {{SS|Lusitania}}, a 5,557-ton [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] passenger liner en route from [[Mozambique]] to [[Lisbon]], strikes Bellows Rock just off [[Cape Point]] and sinks. * [[April 19]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Francisco I. Madero]]'s troops besiege [[Ciudad Juárez]], but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand. * [[April 22]] – A passenger train from [[Port Alfred]] to [[Grahamstown]], South Africa derails on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, and plunges into the ravine {{convert|200|ft|m|0|abbr=off}} below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.<ref name="Holland 1">{{Holland-Vol 1|pages=80–83}}</ref><ref name="SAR History">{{cite book|title=The South African Railways – Historical Survey|editor=Hart, George|publisher=Bill Hart; sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd|date=c. 1978|page=24}}</ref> * [[April 26]] – [[HŠK Građanski Zagreb]] (predecessor of [[GNK Dinamo Zagreb]]), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in [[Zagreb]]. * [[April 27]] – [[Huanghuagang Uprising]]: In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt"). === May === {{Main|May 1911}} * [[May 8]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Pancho Villa]] launches an attack against government troops in [[Ciudad Juárez]] without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender on [[May 10]]. * [[May 13]]–[[May 15|15]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Torreón massacre]] – Over 300 [[Chinese people|Chinese]] residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of [[Francisco I. Madero]], in the Mexican city of [[Torreón]]. * [[May 15]] –[[Standard Oil]] is dissolved by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] into 34 separate oil companies including [[ExxonMobil|Exxon]], [[Mobil]], [[ChevronTexaco|Chevron]], [[Texaco Company|Texaco]], and others due to violation of the [[Sherman Anti-Trust Act]] * [[May 17]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Porfirio Díaz]] is convinced to resign, but does not do so yet. * [[May 21]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: In [[Ciudad Juárez]], a peace treaty is signed between Madero's rebels and government troops. * [[May 24]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40). * [[May 25]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Porfirio Díaz]] signs his resignation and leaves for [[Veracruz]]; on [[May 31]] he leaves for exile in France. * [[May 30]] – The first [[Indianapolis 500]] automobile race is held in the United States, won by [[Ray Harroun]] at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour. * [[May 31]] – The hull of the {{RMS|Titanic}} is launched in [[Belfast]], on the same day {{RMS|Olympic}} starts her sea trials. === June === {{Main|June 1911}} * [[June 7]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Francisco Madero]] arrives in Mexico City, just after the [[1911 Michoacán earthquake]]. * [[June 14]] – {{RMS|Olympic}} departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France. * [[June 15]] – RMS ''Olympic'' arrives in [[Cobh|Queenstown]], Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers. * [[June 21]] – {{RMS|Olympic}} arrives in New York at the end of her maiden voyage. She proceeds to her quarantine station off Staten Island, which she leaves at 7:45 a.m., and is saluted on her way up [[New York Harbor]] by all kinds of craft as she steams to Pier 59 in the North River. With the assistance of twelve tugs, ''Olympic'' is safely moored at 10 a.m. * [[June 22]] – [[George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Mary]] are crowned [[King and Queen of the United Kingdom]] and the [[British Dominions]], at [[Westminster Abbey]] in London.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Range |first1=Matthias |title=Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II |date=23 August 2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-02344-4 |page=239 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmgJGWpDKUC&pg=PA239 |language=en |access-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418141117/https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmgJGWpDKUC&pg=PA239 |url-status=live }}</ref> Moored at Pier 59 of New York Harbor, {{RMS|Olympic}} is decorated for the occasion. * [[June 23]] – [[Frank C. Mars]] starts the Mars Candy Factory in [[Tacoma, Washington]], origin of [[Mars, Incorporated]], the global [[confectionery]] and pet food brand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mars.com/global/about-us/history|title=History in the Making|publisher=Mars Inc.|access-date=2020-07-07|archive-date=November 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118221101/http://www.mars.com/global/about-us/history|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[June 28]] ** {{RMS|Olympic}} departs New York for her maiden eastbound voyage home to Southampton, England. ** The [[Nakhla meteorite]] falls in the [[Abu Hummus]] region of [[Egypt]], providing evidence of [[water on Mars]]. * [[June]] – The [[Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance]] is held in Stockholm, Sweden. === July === {{Main|July 1911}} [[File:Sunset across Machu Picchu.jpg|thumb|200px|alt=A| [[July 24]]: [[Machu Picchu]] rediscovered]] * [[July 1]] – The presence of the German warship {{SMS|Panther|1901|2}} in the Moroccan port of [[Agadir]] triggers the [[Agadir Crisis]]. * [[July 4]] – {{RMS|Olympic}}, having crossed the Atlantic, discharges passengers and mail off Plymouth, England. * [[July 5]] – {{RMS|Olympic}} arrives in Southampton, England, ending her maiden eastbound voyage from New York. * [[July 24]] – [[Hiram Bingham III|Hiram Bingham]] rediscovers [[Machu Picchu]] in [[Peru]]. * [[July 25]] – Headington Football Club merge with Headington Quarry to create Headington United, which much later becomes [[Oxford United F.C.]] in England. * [[July 28]] – The [[Australasian Antarctic Expedition]] begins as the [[SY Aurora|SY ''Aurora'']] departs [[London]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bryan|first=R.|date=2011|title=Ordeal by Ice: Ships of the Antarctic|location=Dobbs Ferry|publisher=Sheridan House|isbn=978-1-57409-312-4|page=269}}</ref> === August === {{Main|August 1911}} * [[August 17]]–[[August 20|20]] – Britain's [[National Railway strike of 1911]], its first national strike of railway workers; on August 19 it leads to the [[Llanelli riots of 1911|Llanelli riots]] in Wales which result in 6 deaths.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2011/08/llanelli_railway_riots_1911.html|publisher=BBC Wales|title=The Llanelli railway riots of 1911|access-date=7 September 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126062932/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2011/08/llanelli_railway_riots_1911.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[August 21]] – [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is stolen from the [[Louvre]] museum in Paris by [[Vincenzo Peruggia]]; the painting is returned in 1913. * [[August 27]] – [[CSKA Moscow]], a professional multi-sports club in [[Russia]], is officially founded.<ref>{{cite book|title=Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game|isbn=978-0-753-51571-6|page=50|last1=Bennetts|first1=Marc|date=March 5, 2009|publisher=Virgin Books }}</ref> *[[August 29]] – [[Ishi]], the last unassimilated [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] in the U.S. using [[stone tools]], emerges from hiding near Oroville, California. === September === {{Main|September 1911}} * [[September 18]] – [[Pyotr Stolypin]], 3rd Prime Minister of the [[Russian Empire]] is assassinated in [[Kiev]] by Leftist revolutionary [[Dmitry Bogrov]] and is succeeded by Count [[Vadimir Kokovtsov]] * [[September 20]] – {{RMS|Olympic}} collides with [[HMS Hawke (1891)|HMS ''Hawke'']] in [[The Solent]], causing considerable damage to both ships. * [[September 25]] – [[French battleship Liberté|French battleship ''Liberté'']] explodes at anchor in [[Toulon]], France, killing around 300 onboard and in the surrounding area. * [[September 29]] – [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] declares [[Italo-Turkish War|war]] on the [[Ottoman Empire]]. === October === {{Main|October 1911}} * [[October 4]] – [[Qing dynasty|China]] adopts "[[Cup of Solid Gold]]" as its first national anthem. However, it is never performed publicly and is replaced a few months later with a new composition. * [[October 7]] – Liberal leader [[Karl Staaff]] returns as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] after a Riksdag election victory based on the promises of defense cuts and social reforms. * [[October 10]] – The [[Wuchang Uprising]] starts the [[Xinhai Revolution]] that leads to the founding of the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]]. * [[October 16]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Félix Díaz (politician)|Felix Diaz]], nephew of [[Porfirio Díaz]], occupies the port of [[Veracruz]], as a sign of rebellion against Madero. * [[October 20]] – [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: [[Amundsen]]'s expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp. * [[October 26]] – In American baseball, the [[Philadelphia Athletics]] defeat the [[New York Giants]], 13–2, to win the [[1911 World Series]] in 6 games. The game is tied 1–1 after three innings, but with four runs in the fourth, and seven runs in the seventh, the A's demolish the Giants. The most unusual play of the game is an [[inside-the-park home run]] made by the A's Jack Barry, on a [[Bunt (baseball)|bunt]]. === November === {{Main|November 1911}} * [[November 1]] ** The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the [[Italo-Turkish War]]. Second Lieutenant [[Giulio Gavotti]] of [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] drops several small bombs. ** [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: Capt. Scott's [[Terra Nova Expedition|''Terra Nova'' Expedition]] sets out for the South Pole from his base camp. * [[November 3]] – [[Chevrolet]] officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T. * [[November 4]] – [[Morocco–Congo Treaty]] brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad). * [[November 5]] – Italy annexes [[Italian Tripolitania|Tripoli]] and [[Italian Cyrenaica|Cyrenaica]] (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on [[February 25]], [[1912]]). * [[November 17]] – [[Omega Psi Phi]] fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. === December === {{Main|December 1911}} [[File:Aan de Zuidpool - p1913-160.jpg|thumb|[[December 14]]: [[Roald Amundsen]] reaches the [[South Pole]]]] [[File:Franz Marc Blaues Pferd 1911.jpg|thumb|100px|[[December 18]]: [[Franz Marc]], ''Blaues Pferd I'']] * [[December 1]] – [[Outer Mongolia]], the predecessor of modern-day [[Mongolia]], is declared independent from the [[Qing dynasty|Chinese Empire]]. * [[December 2]] – [[Australasian Antarctic Expedition]] sets sail from [[Hobart]]. * [[December 9]] – [[Cross Mountain Mine disaster]]: A coal mine explosion near [[Briceville, Tennessee]] kills 84 miners, despite rescue efforts led by the [[United States Bureau of Mines]]. * [[December 12]] – The [[Delhi Durbar#Durbar of 1911|Delhi Durbar]] is held to mark the coronation of [[George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] as [[Emperor of India|Emperor]] and Empress of India, and the transfer of the capital of [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]] from [[Calcutta]] to [[Delhi]]. * [[December 14]] – [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: [[Roald Amundsen]]'s Norwegian expedition reaches the geographical [[South Pole]], 34 days ahead of Capt. Scott. News of Amundsen's success will not reach the outside world until next March. * [[December 18]] – The first exhibition by [[Der Blaue Reiter]] group of painters opens in [[Munich]]. * [[December 18]]–[[December 28|28]] – [[George V's 1911 hunting trip in Nepal]]. * [[December 24]] – [[Lackawanna Cut-Off]] railway line opens in [[New Jersey]] and [[Pennsylvania]]. * [[December 29]] – [[Sun Yat-sen]] is elected Provisional President of the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]]. === Date unknown === * The [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]] is published under American management in England, by [[Cambridge University Press]]. * New Zealand-born British physicist [[Ernest Rutherford]] deduces the existence of a compact [[atomic nucleus]] from experiments involving [[Rutherford scattering]], proposing the [[Rutherford model]] of the [[atom]]. * The first suffrage organisation in Romania, ''[[Liga Drepturile si Datoriile Femeii]]'', is founded. * The [[Air Intelligence of Russia|Air Intelligence branch of Russia's Airforce]] is created. == Births == === January === [[File:Hank Greenberg 1946.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hank Greenberg]]]] [[File:Zenkō Suzuki 19800717.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Zenkō Suzuki]]]] [[File:Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva 2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eduardo Frei Montalva]]]] [[File:Kaye, Danny.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Danny Kaye]]]] [[File:Bruno Kreisky 1983 (cropped).JPEG|thumb|100px|[[Bruno Kreisky]]]] [[File:Polykarp Kusch.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Polykarp Kusch]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Hank Greenberg]], American baseball player (d. [[1986]]) ** [[Roman Totenberg]], Polish-American violinist (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 2]] – [[Pavel Rychagov]], Soviet air ace, air force general (d. [[1941]]) * [[January 3]] – [[Al Sack]], American conductor, composer and violinist (d. [[1947]]) * [[January 5]] – [[Jean-Pierre Aumont]], French actor (d. [[2001]]) * [[January 7]] – [[Butterfly McQueen]], American actress (d. [[1995]]) * [[January 10]] ** [[Binod Bihari Chowdhury]], Bangladeshi revolutionary (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Norman Heatley]], British biologist (d. [[2004]]) * [[January 11]] ** [[Brunhilde Pomsel]], German broadcaster and secretary (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Zenkō Suzuki]], 44th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Bernardino González Ruíz]], Panamanian General and Politician (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Joh Bjelke-Petersen]], 31st [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. [[2005]]) * [[January 15]] * [[January 16]] – [[Eduardo Frei Montalva]], Chilean politician, 29th [[President of Chile]] (d. [[1982]]) * [[January 17]] ** [[John S. McCain Jr.]], American admiral (d. [[1981]]) ** [[George Stigler]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1991]]) * [[January 18]] ** [[José María Arguedas]], Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist (d. [[1969]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Siemens|first=William L.|title=Chronology: José María Arguedas|journal=Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas|year=1980|volume=14|issue=25–26|pages=12–15|doi=10.1080/08905768008594020|via=[[Taylor & Francis]]}}</ref> ** [[Danny Kaye]], American actor, comedian (d. [[1987]]) * [[January 19]] ** [[Ken Nelson (United States record producer)|Ken Nelson]], American record producer, music executive (d. [[2008]]) ** [[Choor Singh]], Singaporean judge (d. [[2009]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Bruno Kreisky]], [[Chancellor of Austria]] (d. [[1990]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Kurt Maetzig]], German director (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Polykarp Kusch]], German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1993]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Johan van Hulst]], Dutch politician, academic, author and [[Yad Vashem]] recipient (d. [[2018]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Peter von Siemens]], German industrialist (d. [[1986]]) * [[January 30]] ** [[Roy Eldridge]], American jazz musician (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Hugh Marlowe]], American film, television, stage and radio actor (d. [[1982]]) * [[January 31]] ** [[Eddie Byrne]], Irish actor (d. [[1981]]) ** [[Baba Vanga]], blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (d. [[1996]]) === February === [[File:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ronald Reagan]]]] [[File:Elizabeth Bishop, 1934 yearbook portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elizabeth Bishop]]]] [[File:Merle Oberon-publicity.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Merle Oberon]]]] * [[February 5]] – [[Jussi Björling]], Swedish tenor (d. [[1960]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Ronald Reagan]], 40th [[President of the United States]] and actor (d. [[2004]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Elizabeth Bishop]], American poet (d. [[1979]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel]], Venezuelan classical musician (d. [[1986]]) * [[February 12]] ** [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]] (Carroll Daly), 5th [[President of Ireland]] (d. [[1978]]) ** [[Stephen H. Sholes]], American recording executive (d. [[1968]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Jean Muir (actress)|Jean Muir]], American actress (d. [[1996]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Willem Johan Kolff]], Dutch inventor (d. [[2009]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Oskar Seidlin]], Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. [[1984]]) * [[February 19]] ** [[Bill Bowerman]], American track athlete, co-founder of [[Nike, Inc.]] (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Merle Oberon]], British actress (d. [[1979]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Madeleine Barclay|Madeline Barclay]], French SOE espionage agent (d. [[1943]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Eduardo Vañó Pastor]], Spanish cartoonist (d. [[1993]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Fanny Edelman]], Argentine politician (d. [[2011]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Otakar Vávra]], Czech director (d. [[2011]]) === March === [[File:Jean Harlow by George Hurrell 1933.png|thumb|100px|[[Jean Harlow]]]] [[File:Retrato de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.png|100px|thumb|[[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]]]] [[File:Alfonso Garcia Robles 1981.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Alfonso García Robles]]]] [[File:JBarbera.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Joseph Barbera]]]] [[File:Tennessee Williams NYWTS.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Tennessee Williams]]]] * [[March 1]] – [[Mike Gilbert (rugby)|Mike Gilbert]], New Zealand rugby union player (d. [[2002]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Jean Harlow]], American actress (d. [[1937]]) * [[March 5]] – [[Wolfgang Larrazábal]], 52nd [[President of Venezuela]] (d. [[2003]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Nikolai Baibakov]], Soviet statesman (d. [[2008]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Alan Hovhaness]], American composer (d. [[2000]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Marita Camacho Quirós]], [[First Ladies and Gentlemen of Costa Rica|First Lady of Costa Rica]], [[supercentenarian]] * [[March 12]] – [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]], 49th [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[1979]]) * [[March 13]] – [[L. Ron Hubbard]], American author, founder of [[Scientology]] (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Peter |title=Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements |date=March 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-49970-0 |page=281 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DouBAgAAQBAJ&dq=L.+Ron+Hubbard&pg=PA281 |language=en |access-date=January 4, 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122959/https://books.google.com/books?id=DouBAgAAQBAJ&dq=L.+Ron+Hubbard&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q=L.%20Ron%20Hubbard&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[March 16]] ** [[Pierre Harmel]], 40th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Josef Mengele]], German Nazi war criminal (d. [[1979]]) * [[March 18]] **[[Al Benton]], American baseball player (d. [[1968]]) **[[William Lava]], American composer (d.[[1971]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Alfonso García Robles]], Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. [[1991]]) * [[March 24]] ** [[Joseph Barbera]], American cartoonist (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Jane Drew]], English architect (d. [[1996]]) ** [[Ephraim Engleman]], American rheumatologist (d. [[2015]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Jack Ruby]], American mobster, killer of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] (d. [[1967]]) * [[March 26]] ** [[Bernard Katz]], German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Tennessee Williams]], American playwright (d. [[1983]])<ref>{{cite book| editor-last=Roudané| editor-first=Matthew Charles| title=The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams| publisher=Cambridge University Press| year=1997| url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00matt| url-access=registration| page=xvi| isbn=978-0521498838}}</ref> * [[March 27]] – [[Erich Heller]], British philosopher (d. [[1990]]) * [[March 29]] – [[Brigitte Horney]], German-born actress (d. [[1988]]) * [[March 31]] ** [[Freddie Green]], American jazz musician (d. [[1987]]) ** [[Elisabeth Grümmer]], German soprano (d. [[1986]]) === April === [[File:Hedi nouira cropped.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Hédi Amara Nouira]]]] [[File:Feodor Lynen with pipette.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Feodor Lynen]]]] [[File:Melvin Calvin 1960s.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Melvin Calvin]]]] [[File:Cyrankiewicz.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Józef Cyrankiewicz]]]] * [[April 3]] ** [[Stanisława Walasiewicz]], Polish-born athlete (d. [[1980]]) ** Sir [[Michael Woodruff]], British/Australian surgeon (d. [[2001]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Narciso J. Alegre]], Filipino civil liberties advocate (d. 1980) * [[April 5]] – [[Hédi Amara Nouira]], Tunisian politician, 11th [[Prime Minister of Tunisia]] (d. [[1993]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Feodor Lynen]], German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1979]]) * [[April 8]] ** [[Melvin Calvin]], American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1997]]) ** [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-10-23|title=Obituary: Emil Cioran|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-emil-cioran-1588019.html|access-date=2021-03-22|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=January 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115091158/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-emil-cioran-1588019.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Ichirō Fujiyama]], Japanese composer, singer (d. [[1993]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Maurice Schumann]], French politician (d. [[1998]]) * [[April 13]] – [[Donald Leslie]], American creator of the Leslie speaker (d. [[2004]]) * [[April 15]] – [[Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi]], Egyptian jurist (d. [[1998]]) * [[April 18]] – [[Maurice Goldhaber]], Austrian-American physicist (d. [[2011]]) * [[April 23]] ** [[Józef Cyrankiewicz]], Polish communist politician, 2-time [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Ronald Neame]], British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (d. [[2010]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Paul Verner]], German politician (d. [[1986]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Antonio Sastre]], Argentine footballer (d. [[1987]]) * [[April 28]] ** [[Lee Falk]], American writer, theater director and producer (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Luigi Ferrando (cyclist)|Luigi Ferrando]], Italian [[bicycle racing|racing cyclist]] (d. [[2003]]) === May === [[File:Big Joe in Hamburg 1973.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Big Joe Turner]]]] [[File:Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Vincent Price]]]] [[File:ALLAIS PN Maurice-24x30-2001b.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Maurice Allais]]]] * [[May 5]] – [[Andor Lilienthal]], Hungarian chess Grandmaster (d. [[2010]]) * [[May 6]] – [[Frank Nelson (actor)|Frank Nelson]], American actor (d. [[1986]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Ishirō Honda]], Japanese film director (d. [[1993]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Robert Johnson]], American guitarist, singer (d. [[1938]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Bel Kaufman]], German-born American author (d. [[2014]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Phil Silvers]], American actor, comedian (d. [[1985]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Dorothy Rungeling]], Canadian aviator (d. [[2018]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Max Frisch]], Swiss playwright and novelist (d. [[1991]])<ref>''Frisch, Max (1911–1991)''. In Suzanne M. Bourgoin and Paula K. Byers, ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. Retrieved 18 April 2007.</ref> * [[May 16]] – [[Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah]], Malayan queen (d. [[1999]]) * [[May 17]] ** [[Lisa Fonssagrives]], Swedish model (d. [[1992]]) ** [[André Jaunet]], French-born flutist (d. [[1988]]) ** [[Maureen O'Sullivan]], Irish actress (d. [[1998]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Big Joe Turner]], African-American singer (d. [[1985]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Gardner Fox]], American writer (d. [[1986]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Anatol Rapoport]], Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. [[2007]]) * [[May 24]] – [[Carleen Hutchins]], American violin maker (d. [[2009]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Eric P. Newman]], American numismatist (d. [[2017]]) * [[May 27]] **[[Hubert Humphrey]], American politician, [[Vice President of the United States]] (1965-1969) (d. [[1978]])<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXESEAAAQBAJ&dq=hubert+humphrey+may+27+1911&pg=PA199 | title=The Complete Book of US Presidents, Fourth Edition: Updated for 2021 | isbn=9780785839231 | last1=Yenne | first1=Bill | date=March 2, 2021 | publisher=Crestline Books | access-date=September 24, 2023 | archive-date=November 29, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129053042/https://books.google.com/books?id=HXESEAAAQBAJ&dq=hubert+humphrey+may+27+1911&pg=PA199 | url-status=live }}</ref> **[[Teddy Kollek]], Austrian-born Israeli politician, [[mayor of Jerusalem]] (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Vincent Price]], American actor (d. [[1993]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Maurice Allais]], French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[2010]]) === June === [[File:LWA Picture Final.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Luis Walter Alvarez]]]] [[File:Rev_W_Awdry_and_Peter_Sam_-_1988-05-14_(cropped)_2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wilbert Awdry]]]] [[File:Princess Cecilie of Greece.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark]]]] [[File:Bernard-Herrmann.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bernard Herrmann]]]] [[File:Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld 1976.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]]]] [[File:Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap.tif|thumb|100px|[[Czesław Miłosz]]]] * [[June 3]] – [[Ellen Corby]], American actress (d. [[1999]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Milovan Đilas]], Yugoslavian Marxist (d. [[1995]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Neel E. Kearby]], American fighter ace (d. [[1944]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Hawley Pratt]], American film director, animator and illustrator (d. [[1999]]) * [[June 13]] ** [[Luis Walter Alvarez]], American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1988]]) ** [[Prince Aly Khan]], Indian-born Pakistani imam of Ismaili Shi'a Islam (d. [[1960]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Wilbert Awdry]], English children's writer (d. [[1997]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Paulo Gracindo]], Brazilian actor (d. [[1995]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Dudley Senanayake]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[June 20]] – [[Paul Pietsch]], German racer, magazine magnate (d. [[2012]]) * [[June 21]] ** [[Irving Fein]], American television, film producer (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Wonderful Smith]], African-American comedian (d. [[2008]]) * [[June 22]] ** [[Marie Braun]], Dutch swimmer (d. [[1982]]) ** [[Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark]], wife of [[Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse|Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse]] and sister of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] (d. [[1937]]) ** [[Michel Dens]], French baritone singer (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Vernon Kirby]], South African tennis player (d. [[1994]]) ** [[Kenneth Mather|Sir Kenneth Mather]], British geneticist and botanist (d. [[1990]]) * [[June 23]] ** [[Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov]], Russian aeronautical engineer (d. [[1995]]) ** [[Horace Law|Admiral Sir Horace Rochfort Law]], British naval officer and [[Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command (Royal Navy)|Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command]] (March 1970 – May 1972) (d. [[2005]]) ** [[David Ogilvy (businessman)|David Ogilvy]], British advertising executive (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Hannah Weinstein]], American journalist, publicist and left-wing political activist who became a television producer in Britain (d. [[1984]]) * [[June 24]] ** [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], Argentine race car driver (d. [[1995]]) ** [[Norman Lessing]], American television screenwriter, producer, playwright, chess master and chess writer (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Ernesto Sabato]], Argentine writer (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Portia White]], Canadian opera singer (d. [[1968]]) * [[June 25]] ** [[Reed Hadley]], American actor (d. [[1974]]) ** [[William Howard Stein]], American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1980]]) * [[June 26]] ** [[Toyo Shibata]], Japanese poet (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Babe Didrikson Zaharias]], American athlete, golfer (d. [[1956]]) * [[June 27]] ** [[Ben Alexander (actor)|Ben Alexander]], American actor (d. [[1969]]) ** [[Marion M. Magruder]], American officer (d. [[1997]]) * [[June 28]] ** [[Donald Douglas (surgeon)|Sir Donald Macleod Douglas]], Scottish surgeon (d. [[1993]]) ** [[Thalia Mara]], American ballet dancer, educator and author (d. [[2003]]) ** [[David Wanklyn|Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn]], British naval officer (MIA [[1942]]) * [[June 29]] ** [[Bernard Herrmann]], American composer (d. [[1975]]) ** [[Lucien Lauk]], French racing cyclist (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]], German-born [[Prince Consort of the Netherlands]] (1948–1980) (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Pablo Gomez Sarino]], Filipino politician (d.[[1987]]) [[File:Mayor Pablo Sarino.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pablo Gomez Sarino]]]] * [[June 30]] ** [[Czesław Miłosz]], Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Nagarjun]], Indian poet (d. [[1998]]) === July === [[File:Gian_Carlo_Menotti_(46197651081).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Gian Carlo Menotti]]]] [[File:John_Archibald_Wheeler_1985.jpg|100px|thumb|[[John Archibald Wheeler]]]] [[File:Ginger Rogers Colorized 1943.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Ginger Rogers]]]] [[File:Yang_Jiang_1941.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Yang Jiang]]]] [[File:Marshall_McLuhan.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Marshall McLuhan]]]] [[File:José María Lemus.jpg|100px|thumb|[[José María Lemus]]]] * [[July 1]] ** [[Guy Raymond]], American actor (d. [[1997]]) ** [[Sergey Sokolov (commander)|Sergei Sokolov]], Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[2012]]) * [[July 2]] ** [[Fred Beaver]], Muscogee Creek-Seminole painter and muralist (d. [[1980]]) ** [[Diego Fabbri]], Italian playwright (d. [[1980]]) ** [[Dorothy M. Horstmann]], American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Reg Parnell]], British racing driver and manager (d. [[1964]]) * [[July 3]] ** [[Herbert E. Grier]], American electrical engineer (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Joe Hardstaff Jr]], English cricketer (d. [[1990]]) * [[July 4]] ** [[Mitch Miller]], American singer, television personality (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Elizabeth Peratrovich]], American civil rights activist (d. [[1958]]) ** [[Frederick Seitz]], American scientist (d. [[2008]]) * [[July 5]] ** [[Costantino Nivola]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1988]]) ** [[Giorgio Borġ Olivier]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (d. [[1980]]) ** [[Georges Pompidou]], [[President of France]] (d. [[1974]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[LaVerne Andrews]], American singer (d. [[1967]]) ** [[Annibale Frossi]], Italian football player, manager (d. [[1999]]) ** [[June Gale]], American actress (d. [[1996]]) * [[July 7]] ** [[Hubert de Bèsche]], Swedish fencer (d. [[1997]]) ** [[Gretchen Franklin]], English actress, dancer (d. [[2005]]) ** [[Shunpei Hashioka]], Japanese-Chinese boxer (d. [[1978]]) ** [[Gian Carlo Menotti]], Italian-born American composer (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Joan Perry]], American film actress, model and singer (d. [[1996]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[John Ball (novelist)|John Dudley Ball Jr.]], American novelist (d. [[1988]]) ** [[Vicente Gómez (composer)|Vincente Gomez]], Spanish guitarist and composer (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Fred Kohler Jr.]], American actor (d. [[1993]]) * [[July 9]] ** [[Aleksandrs Laime]], [[Latvia]]n-born explorer (d. [[1994]]) ** [[Mervyn Peake]], British writer, illustrator (d. [[1968]]) ** [[Svetislav Valjarević]], Serbian Yugoslav international football player (d. [[1996]]) ** [[John Archibald Wheeler]], American physicist (d. [[2008]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Amalia Solórzano]], [[First Lady of Mexico]] (d. [[2008]]) * [[July 11]] ** [[Hyacinth Gabriel Connon]], American-Filipino [[De La Salle Brothers|Lasallian Brother]], president of [[De La Salle University]] in Manila (1950–1959 and 1966–1978) (d. [[1978]]) ** [[Olive Cotton]], Australian photographer (d. [[2003]]) * [[July 14]] – [[William Norris (CEO)|William Norris]], American business executive (d. [[2006]]) * [[July 15]] ** [[Max Seela]], German lieutenant colonel in the Waffen-SS (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Hans von Luck]], German Nazi Wehrmacht officer (d. [[1997]]) ** [[Paul Zoll]], American cardiologist (d. [[1999]]) * [[July 16]] ** [[Ginger Rogers]], American actress, dancer (d. [[1995]]) ** [[Gabriele Wülker]], German social scientist, civil servant (d. [[2001]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Yang Jiang]], Chinese playwright, author and translator (d. [[2016]]) * [[July 18]] ** [[Hume Cronyn]], Canadian actor (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Arch MacDonald]], American broadcast journalist, television pioneer (d. [[1985]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Ben Eastman]], American middle-distance runner (d. [[2002]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Loda Halama]], Polish dancer and actress (d. 1996) * [[July 21]] – [[Marshall McLuhan]], Canadian author (d. [[1980]]) * [[July 22]] – [[José María Lemus]], 33rd [[President of El Salvador]] (d. [[1993]]) * [[July 26]] – [[Jerry Burke]], American musician (d. [[1965]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Ann Doran]], American actress (d. [[2000]]) * [[July 29]] – [[Ján Cikker]], Slovak composer (d. [[1989]]) * [[July 31]] – [[George Liberace]], American musician (d. [[1983]]) === August === [[File:LDBALL1950s.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Lucille Ball]]]] [[File:Aankomst_minister_president_van_Thailand_Z._E._veldmaarschalk_Thanom_Kittikachor%2C_Bestanddeelnr_921-2857_%28cropped%29.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Thanom Kittikachorn]]]] [[File:Mario Moreno - Cantinflas-2.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Cantinflas]]]] [[File:Mikhail Botvinnik 1962.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Mikhail Botvinnik]]]] * [[August 2]] – [[Rusty Wescoatt]], American actor (d. [[1987]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Manuel Esperón]], Mexican musician, composer (d. [[2011]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]], American actor (d. [[1969]]) * [[August 6]] ** [[Lucille Ball]], American actress, television producer and co-owner of [[Desilu Productions]] (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Norman Gordon]], South African cricketer (d. [[2014]]) ** [[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 (politician)|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 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 22]] – [[Joe Hickey (politician)|Joe Hickey]], American politician, jurist, governor and senator from [[Wyoming]] (d. [[1970]]) * [[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 29]] – [[John Charnley]], English orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer of hip replacement operation (d. [[1982]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Ramón Vinay]], Chilean operatic tenor (d. [[1996]]) === September === [[File:Todor Jivkov.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Todor Zhivkov]]]] [[File:JohnGorton1968.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[John Gorton]]]] [[File:KonstantinChernenko2.jpg|thumb|108x108px|[[Konstantin Chernenko]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Kōmei Abe]], Japanese composer (d. [[2006]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Romare Bearden]], American artist (d. [[1988]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Harry Danning]], American baseball player (d. [[2004]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Todor Zhivkov]], 36th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (d. [[1998]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Byron Morrow]], American actor (d. [[2006]]) * [[September 9]] ** [[Paul Goodman]], American author (d. [[1972]]) ** [[John Gorton|Sir John Gorton]], 19th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[2002]]) * [[September 10]] ** [[Nelly Omar]], Argentine actress and singer (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Renée Simonot]], French actress (d. [[2021]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Bill Monroe]], American musician (d. [[1996]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Joseph Pevney]], American director (d. [[2008]]) * [[September 19]] – [[William Golding]], English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1993]]) * [[September 24]] ** [[Konstantin Chernenko]], General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. [[1985]]) ** [[Ed Kretz]], American motorcycle racer (d. [[1996]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Eric Williams]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago]] (d. [[1981]]) * [[September 27]] – [[John Harvey (actor)|John Harvey]], American actor (d. [[1982]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Charles Court]], Australian politician (d. [[2007]]) * [[September 30]] ** [[Bernd von Brauchitsch]], German air force officer (d. [[1974]]) ** [[Ruth Gruber]], American journalist and writer (d. [[2016]]) === October === [[File:Joe Rosenthal, 1990.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joe Rosenthal]]]] [[File:LeDucTho1973.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lê Đức Thọ]]]] * [[October 3]] – [[Edgar Sanabria]], Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, Interim [[President of Venezuela]] (d. [[1989]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Mary Two-Axe Earley]], Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (d. [[1996]]) * [[October 5]] **[[Pierre Dansereau]], Canadian ecologist (d. [[2011]]) **[[Brian O'Nolan]], Irish humourist (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite book |title=A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes |date=13 May 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-80619-3 |page=473 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlK7uHg2Dh8C&pg=PT473 |language=en |access-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123002/https://books.google.com/books?id=qlK7uHg2Dh8C&pg=PT473#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[October 9]] – [[Joe Rosenthal]], American photographer (d. [[2006]]) * [[October 10]] – [[Clare Hollingworth]], English journalist (d. [[2017]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Vijay Merchant]], Indian cricketer (d. [[1987]]) * [[October 13]] ** [[Tadeusz Chyliński]], Polish designer and constructor (d. [[1978]]) ** [[Ashok Kumar]], Indian actor (d. [[2001]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Lê Đức Thọ]], Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. [[1990]]) * [[October 15]] – [[James H. Schmitz]], German-born American science fiction writer (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC1&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK2407000497&mode=view&userGroupName=mill51837&jsid=eaef3d2954ec6d3042b4abb10a760b7d |author= |title= James H(enry) Schmitz |work= [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] Biography in Context |access-date= October 9, 2012 |archive-date= April 29, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200429203227/https://login.openathens.net/auth/millersville.edu/o/70050428?t=%2Fsaml%2F1%2Fsso%2Fmillersville.edu%2Fo%2F70050428%2Fc%2Foafed%3Fshire%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth.gale.com%2FShibboleth.sso%2FSAML%2FPOST&time=1588192345&target=cookie%3A1588192345_8144&providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fauth.galegroup.com%2Fshibboleth&ctx=sd |url-status= live }}</ref> * [[October 21]] ** [[Dick Harris (Australian rules footballer)|Dick Harris]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[1993]]) ** [[William A. Mitchell]], American food chemist, inventor (d. [[2004]]) * [[October 26]] ** [[Sid Gillman]], American football coach (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Mahalia Jackson]], African-American [[Gospel music|gospel]] singer (d. [[1972]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Leif Erickson (actor)|Leif Erickson]], American actor (d. [[1986]]) * [[October 30]] ** [[Ruth Hussey]], American actress (d. [[2005]]) ** [[Eileen Whelan]], British cricketer (d. [[2021]]) === November === [[File:Odysseas Elytis 1974.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Odysseas Elytis]]]] [[File:Jorge Negrete publicity photo, c.1940s (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jorge Negrete]]]] * [[November 1]] ** [[Henri Troyat]], French writer (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Sidney Wood (tennis)|Sidney Wood]], American tennis player (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Shi Ping (politician)|Shi Ping]], Chinese academic, political administrator, and supercentenarian (d. [[2024]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Odysseas Elytis]], Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1996]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Roy Rogers]], American singer, actor (d. [[1998]]) * [[November 7]] ** [[Yolande Beekman]], French-born World War II heroine (d. [[1944]]) ** [[Ángeles Santos Torroella]], Spanish painter (d. [[2013]]) * [[November 12]] ** [[Yehoshua Rabinovitz]], Israeli politician (d. [[1979]]) ** [[Chad Varah]], British priest and humanitarian (d. [[2007]]) * [[November 13]] – [[Buck O'Neil]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[2006]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Kay Walsh]], British actress (d. [[2005]]) * [[November 24]] – [[Erik Bergman]], Finnish composer (d. [[2006]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Roelof Frankot]], Dutch painter (d. [[1984]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Robert Marchand (cyclist)|Robert Marchand]], French cyclist (d. [[2021]]) * [[November 27]] ** [[David Merrick]], American theater producer (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Fe del Mundo]], Filipino paediatrician (d. [[2011]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Václav Renč]], Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d. [[1973]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Jorge Negrete]], Mexican singer and actor (d. [[1953]])<ref>{{citation|website=El Siglo de Torreón|title=1953: Muere Jorge Negrete, 'El Charro Cantor'|url=https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/814939.1953-muere-jorge-negrete-el-charro-cantor.html|date=December 5, 2012|access-date=August 23, 2019|language=es|trans-title=1953: Jorge Negrete, 'El Charro Cantor,' dies|archive-date=August 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823205534/https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/814939.1953-muere-jorge-negrete-el-charro-cantor.html|url-status=live}}</ref> === December === [[File:Broderick Crawford 1970.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Broderick Crawford]]]] [[File:Necip Mahfuz.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Naguib Mahfouz]]]] [[File:Trygve Haavelmo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Trygve Haavelmo]]]] [[File:Ohain.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hans von Ohain]]]] [[File:Niels Kaj Jerne 1950 crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Niels Kaj Jerne]]]] * [[December 1]] – [[Walter Alston]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[1984]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Nino Rota]], Italian composer (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2149}}</ref> * [[December 5]] – [[Władysław Szpilman]], Polish pianist, memoirist (d. [[2000]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Lee J. Cobb]], American actor (d. [[1976]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Broderick Crawford]], American actor (d. [[1986]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Chet Huntley]], American television reporter (d. [[1974]]) * [[December 11]] ** [[Val Guest]], British film director (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Naguib Mahfouz]], Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Qian Xuesen]], Chinese scientist (d. [[2009]]) * [[December 13]] ** [[Trygve Haavelmo]], Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Kenneth Patchen]], American poet and painter (d. [[1972]]) * [[December 14]] ** [[Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz]], Greek-Polish athlete, Resistance member (d. [[1943]]) ** [[Spike Jones]], American musician (d. [[1965]]) ** [[Hans von Ohain]], German physicist, designer of the first operational jet engine (d. [[1998]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Stan Kenton]], American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0219.html |title=Stan Kenton, Band Leader, Dies; Was Center of Jazz Controversies |first=John S.|last= Wilson |date=August 27, 1979 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 10, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063008/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0219.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> * [[December 17]] – [[André Claveau]], French singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] 1958 winner (d. [[2003]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Jules Dassin]], American director (d. [[2008]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Hortense Calisher]], American author (d. [[2009]]) * [[December 21]] – [[Josh Gibson]], African-American baseball player (d. [[1947]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Niels Kaj Jerne]], English-born immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1994]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Louise Bourgeois]], French-born American artist (d. [[2010]]) * [[December 26]] ** [[Steve Kordek]], American pinball innovator (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu]] of Japan (d. [[2004]]) * [[December 27]] ** [[Abdul Halim (Indonesia)|Abdul Halim]], Indonesian politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Indonesia]] (d. [[1987]]) ** [[Anna Russell]], British comedian and singer (d. [[2006]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Sam Levenson]], American humorist and author (d. [[1980]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Klaus Fuchs]], German theoretical physicist, spy (d. [[1988]]) * [[December 30]]--[[Jeanette Nolan]], American actress (d. [[1998]]) == Deaths == === January === [[File:MarcelinaDarowska1DSC 0167.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Marcelina Darowska]]]] [[File:Sir Francis Galton by Charles Wellington Furse.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Francis Galton]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[John I. Curtin]], American general (b. 1837) * [[January 3]] ** [['Abd al-Ahad Khan]], Emir of Bukhara (b. 1859) ** [[Alexandros Papadiamantis]], Greek poet (b. 1851) * [[January 4]] ** [[Stefano Bruzzi]], Italian painter (b. 1835) ** [[Francesco Segna]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. 1836) * [[January 5]] ** [[Walter Beatty]], Canadian political figure (b. 1836) ** [[Marcelina Darowska]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] nun, saint (b. 1827) * [[January 6]] – [[Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet]], English civil engineer (b. 1833) * [[January 8]] – [[Pietro Gori]], Italian lawyer, journalist and poet (b. 1865) * [[January 12]] – [[Georg Jellinek]], Austrian legal philosopher (b. [[1851]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Władysław Czachórski]], Polish painter (b. 1850) * [[January 15]] – [[Carolina Coronado]], Spanish poet (b. 1820) * [[January 17]] – Sir [[Francis Galton]], British explorer, biologist (b. 1822) * [[January 23]] – [[Edmund Beswick]], English rugby football player (b. 1858) === February === [[File:GiuseppinaVannini.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|Saint [[Giuditta Vannini]]]] [[File:Alice Morse 1873.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alice Morse Earle]]]] * [[February 1]] – [[Charles Stillman Sperry]], American admiral (b. 1847) * [[February 2]] – [[Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria]] (b. 1852) * [[February 4]] ** [[Piet Cronjé]], Boer general (b. 1836) **[[John W. Blaisdell]], American stage actor (b. 1840) * [[February 8]] – [[Joaquín Costa]], Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and historian (b. 1846) * [[February 10]] – [[Gustavo Maria Bruni]], Italian childhood [[Roman Catholic]] servant of God (b. 1903) * [[February 14]] – [[David Boyle (archaeologist)|David Boyle]], Canadian archaeologist (b. 1842) * [[February 15]] ** [[Theodor Escherich]], German-born Austrian pediatrician (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shulman |first1=S. T. |last2=Friedmann |first2=H. C. |last3=Sims |first3=R. H. |title=Theodor Escherich: The First Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician? |journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases |date=15 October 2007 |volume=45 |issue=8 |pages=1025–1029 |doi=10.1086/521946 |pmid=17879920 |doi-access=free }}</ref> ** [[Pavel Grigorievich Dukmasov]], Russian general (b. 1838) * [[February 16]] – [[Alice Morse Earle]], American historian (b. 1851) * [[February 18]] – [[Buttons Briggs]], American baseball player (b. 1875) * [[February 21]] – [[Isidre Nonell]], Spanish painter (b. 1873) * [[February 23]] ** [[Richard Henry Beddome]], British military officer, naturalist (b. 1830) ** [[Giuditta Vannini]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed, blessed (b. 1859) * [[February 25]] – [[Fritz von Uhde]], German painter (b. 1848) === March === [[File:Jacobus van 't Hoff by Perscheid 1904.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]]]] [[File:DraganTsankov.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Dragan Tsankov]]]] * [[March 1]] – [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]], Dutch chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1852) * [[March 6]] ** [[Mary Anne Barker]], English author (b. 1831) ** [[Thierry, Count of Limburg Stirum]], Belgian historian (b. 1827) * [[March 11]] – [[Théotime Blanchard]], Canadian farmer, teacher, merchant and politician (b. 1844) * [[March 18]] ** [[Richard Chaffey Baker|Richard Baker]], Australian politician (b. 1842) ** [[Anna Brackett]], American feminist, educator (b. 1836) * [[March 21]] – [[Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi]], Indian Islamic scholar (b. [[1857]]) * [[March 22]] – [[William Collins (bishop)|William Collins]], British [[Anglican]] bishop (b. 1867) * [[March 24]] ** [[Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de La Chavanne]], French jurist (b. 1824) ** [[Dragan Tsankov]], Bulgarian politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. 1828) * [[March 27]] – [[Margarita Savitskaya]], Russian actress (b. 1868) * [[March 28]] – [[Samuel Franklin Emmons]], American geologist (b. 1841) * [[March 30]] ** [[Pellegrino Artusi]], Italian businessman (b. 1820) ** [[Ellen Swallow Richards]], American chemist (b. [[1842]]) === April === [[File:Georg (Schaumburg-Lippe).jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|[[George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]]]] * [[April 5]] – [[Charles Frederic Moberly Bell]], British journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1847) * [[April 9]] – [[Manuel Aguirre de Tejada]], Spanish politician and lawyer (b. 1827) * [[April 10]] – [[Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis]], Lithuanian artist and composer (b. 1875)<ref>{{cite book|author=Jolanta Hauser|title=Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis: Zu Leben und Werk eines litauischen Komponisten und Malers|publisher=Diplom.de|year=2002|isbn=9783832450878|language=de|page=14}}</ref> * [[April 12]] – [[James Mathers (missionary)|James Mathers]], Irish missionary (b. 1854) * [[April 14]] ** [[Addie Joss]], American baseball player, [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Major League Baseball Hall of Fame]] member (b. 1880) ** [[Denman Thompson]], American actor, playwright (b. 1833) * [[April 25]] – [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian writer (b. 1862) * [[April 26]] – [[Pedro Paterno]], Filipino politician (b. 1857) * [[April 29]] – [[Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (b. 1846) === May === [[File:Photo of Gustav Mahler by Moritz N%C3%A4hr 01.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Gustav Mahler]]]] [[File:Bánffy Dezső Ellinger.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Baron [[Dezső Bánffy]]]] * [[May 6]] ** [[Robert Alden]], American author (b. 1836) ** [[René Vallon]], French aviator (b. 1880)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9808029q/f218.item.texteImage |last=Dépagniat |first=Roger |language=French |title=Les Martyrs de l'Aviation |trans-title=The Martyrs of Aviation |publisher=E. Basset and Co. |location=Paris |date=1912 }}</ref> * [[May 9]] – [[Thomas Wentworth Higginson]], American Unitarian minister and abolitionist (b. 1823) * [[May 16]] – [[Gheorghe Manu]], 17th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. 1833) * [[May 18]] – [[Gustav Mahler]], Austrian composer (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fischer|first1=Jens Malte|last2=Translated by Stewart Spencer|title=Gustav Mahler|date=April 2013|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19411-1|pages=684|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnBj5mrK7moC&pg=PA680|access-date=June 2, 2022|archive-date=April 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415173532/https://books.google.com/books?id=rnBj5mrK7moC&pg=PA680|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[May 21]] – [[Williamina Fleming]], Scottish astronomer (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=118|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref> * [[May 23]] – [[John Douglas (English architect)|John Douglas]], English architect (b. 1830) * [[May 24]] – [[Dezső Bánffy]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. 1843) * [[May 25]] ** [[Vasily Klyuchevsky]], Russian historian (b. 1841) ** [[William Ridley (bishop)|William Ridley]], British missionary (b. 1836) * [[May 27]] – [[Thursday October Christian II]], Pitcairn Islands leader (b. 1820) * [[May 29]] ** [[Benjamin Broomhall]], British advocate (b. 1829) ** [[Daniel W. Burke]], American soldier (b. 1841) ** [[Stephanus Jacobus du Toit]], South African nationalist, theologian, journalist and politician (b. 1847) ** [[W. S. Gilbert]], English dramatist (b. 1836) * [[May 30]] – [[Milton Bradley]], American businessman and board game pioneer (b. [[1836]]) === June === [[File:Rouvier.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|[[Maurice Rouvier]]]] * [[June 1]] – [[Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido]], Cuban violinist (b. 1852) * [[June 2]] – [[Axel Olof Freudenthal]], Finnish philologist, politician (b. 1836) * [[June 5]] – [[Édouard Bague]], French aviator (b. 1879) * [[June 7]] ** [[William Gordon (bishop of Leeds)|William Gordon]], British [[Roman Catholic]] prelate (b. 1831) ** [[Maurice Rouvier]], French statesman, [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. 1842) * [[June 9]] – [[Carrie Nation]], American temperance activist (b. 1846) * [[June 16]] – [[Joshua H. Berkey]], American publisher, minister and political activist (b. 1852) * [[June 20]] – [[Ghazaros Aghayan]], Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure (b. 1840) * [[June 23]] – [[Cecrope Barilli]], Italian painter (b. 1839) * [[June 25]] – [[Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy]] (b. 1843) * [[June 26]] – [[Lucy Hughes Brown]], American physician (b. 1863) === July === [[File:GeorgeJohnstoneStoney(1826-1911),Undated(DateGuessedEarly1890s).jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[George Johnstone Stoney]]]] [[File:Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg]]]] * [[July 2]] ** [[José Dias Correia de Carvalho]], Portuguese [[Roman Catholic]] bishop (b. 1830) ** [[Mary M. Cohen]], American social economist (b. 1854) ** [[Clement A. Evans]], American Confederate general (b. 1833) * [[July 5]] ** [[Maria Pia of Savoy]], [[Queen consort of Portugal]] (b. 1847) ** [[George Johnstone Stoney]], Irish physicist (b. [[1826]]) * [[July 6]] – [[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg]] (b. 1830) * [[July 8]] – [[Henry Perrine Baldwin]], American businessman (b. 1842) * [[July 11]] – [[Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse]], American temperance activist and juvenile literature author (b. 1841) * [[July 14]] – [[Ignaz von Peczely]], Hungarian scientist, physician and homeopath (b. 1826) * [[July 15]] ** [[Carlo Ademollo]], Italian painter (b. 1824) ** [[Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]] (b. 1832) * [[July 16]] – [[August Harambašić]], Croatian writer (b. 1861) * [[July 17]] – [[Rufino José Cuervo]], Colombian linguist, philologist and writer (b. 1844) * [[July 19]] – [[Manuel Iradier]], Spanish explorer and Africanist (b. 1854) * [[July 20]] – [[Caleb Cook Baldwin]], American [[Presbyterian]] missionary (b. 1820) * [[July 25]] ** [[Edmund Bogdanowicz]], Polish poet, writer and journalist (b. 1857) ** [[Carmen Salles y Barangueras]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and saint (b. 1848) * [[July 26]] – [[José Alves de Cerqueira César]], Brazilian politician (b. 1835) === August === [[File:Konrad Duden 1829-1911.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Konrad Duden]]]] [[File:Nizam Mahboob Ali Khan Asaf Jah VI.png|thumb|100px|right|[[Mahbub Ali Khan]]]] * [[August 1]] ** [[Edwin Austin Abbey]], American painter (b. 1852) ** [[Konrad Duden]], German philologist (b. 1829) * [[August 2]] – [[Ioryi Mucitano]], Aromanian revolutionary (b. 1882)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://struma.news/istoriya-i-tradicii/na-6-maj-1869-g-v-selo-bojmica-e-roden-apostol-petkov-terziev-postol-vojvoda/|title=На 6 май 1869 г. в село Боймица е роден Апостол Петков Терзиев (Постол войвода)|first=Simona|last=Georgieva|newspaper=Struma News|date=6 May 2020|language=bg|access-date=July 14, 2023|archive-date=July 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714133106/https://struma.news/istoriya-i-tradicii/na-6-maj-1869-g-v-selo-bojmica-e-roden-apostol-petkov-terziev-postol-vojvoda/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[August 6]] – [[Florentino Ameghino]], Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1853) * [[August 7]] ** [[Elizabeth Akers Allen]], American poet and journalist (b. 1832) ** [[José Rafael Balmaceda]], Chilean politician, diplomat (b. 1850) * [[August 11]] ** [[Isabela de Rosis]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, servant of God and Venerable (b. 1842) ** [[Albert Ladenburg]], German chemist (b. [[1842]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Jules Brunet]], French military leader (b. 1838) * [[August 14]] – [[Henry Rathbone]], Union Army officer and diplomat (b. [[1837]]) * [[August 15]] – [[William R. Badger]], American pioneer aviator (b. 1886) * [[August 16]] – [[Patrick Francis Moran]], Australian cardinal, [[Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Sydney|Archbishop of Sydney]] (b. 1830) * [[August 17]] – [[Petro Nini Luarasi]], Albanian activist (b. 1854) * [[August 29]] – [[Mahbub Ali Khan]] of Hyderabad (b. 1886) * [[August 31]] – [[Benjamin Grierson]], American Civil War general (b. [[1826]]) === September === [[File:Pyotr Stolypin LOC 07327.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|[[Pyotr Stolypin]]]] * [[September 4]] – [[John Francon Williams]], Welsh-born journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854) * [[September 7]] – [[Friedrich Breitfuss]], Russian philatelist (b. 1851) * [[September 9]] – [[Francis March]], American comparative linguist (b. [[1825]]) * [[September 12]] – [[William Alexander (bishop)|William Alexander]], Irish Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (b. [[1824]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Joel Benton]], American writer, poet and lecturer (b. 1832) * [[September 16]] – [[Edward Whymper]], British explorer, mountaineer (b. 1840) * [[September 18]] – [[Pyotr Stolypin]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Russia]] (assassinated) (b. 1862) * [[September 20]] – [[Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet]], British diplomat (b. 1835) * [[September 23]] – [[John Arthur Barry]], British-born Australian journalist, author (b. 1850) * [[September 25]] – [[Emma Helen Blair]], American journalist, editor (b. 1851) * [[September 29]] – [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote]], 3rd [[Governor-General of Australia]] (b. 1846) * [[September 30]] – [[Herbert Hope Risley|Sir Herbert Risley]], British ethnographer and colonial administrator (b. 1851) === October === [[File:Carolina Beatriz Ângelo.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Carolina Beatriz Ângelo]]]] [[File:Antonio Borrero2.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Antonio Borrero]]]] [[File:José López Domínguez (Palacio del Senado de España).jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[José López Domínguez]]]] * [[October]] – [[Blanche Atkinson]], British novelist (b. 1847) * [[October 1]] – [[Wilhelm Dilthey]], German psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1833) * [[October 2]] ** [[Cromwell Dixon]], American aviator (b. 1892)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.helenahistory.org/cromwell-dixon.htm |title=Cromwell Dixon 1892-1911 |access-date=October 5, 2023 |archive-date=November 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109062029/http://www.helenahistory.org/cromwell-dixon.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Winfield Scott Schley]], American admiral (b. 1839) * [[October 3]] – [[Carolina Beatriz Ângelo]], Portuguese physician (b. 1878) * [[October 5]] – [[William Astley]], Australian writer (b. 1855) * [[October 7]] ** [[John Hughlings Jackson]], English neurologist (b. 1835) ** [[Elmer McCurdy]], American outlaw (b. 1880) * [[October 8]] – [[Lee Batchelor]], Australian politician (b. 1865) * [[October 9]] ** [[Cornelius Newton Bliss]], American merchant, politician and collector (b. 1833) ** [[Antonio Borrero]], 10th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. 1827) * [[October 11]] ** [[Dimitar Agura]], Bulgarian historian (b. 1849) ** [[Henry Broadhurst]], British trade unionist, politician (b. 1840) ** [[Elena Arellano Chamorro]], Nicaraguan pioneer educator (b. 1836) * [[October 13]] – [[Miguel Malvar]], Filipino general (b. 1865) * [[October 14]] – [[John Marshall Harlan]], U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833) * [[October 17]] – [[José López Domínguez]], Spanish military officer, politician and 24th [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. 1829) * [[October 18]] – [[Alfred Binet]], French psychologist (b. 1857) * [[October 19]] – [[Eugene Burton Ely]], American aviation pioneer (b. 1886) * [[October 24]] – [[Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper)|Ida Lewis]], American lighthouse keeper (b. 1842) * [[October 27]] – [[Arthur Lloyd (missionary)|Arthur Lloyd]], British [[Anglican]] missionary (b. 1852) * [[October 28]] – [[Clement V. Rogers]], Cherokee politician, father of [[Will Rogers]] (b. 1839) * [[October 29]] – [[Joseph Pulitzer]], Hungarian-born newspaper publisher, journalist (b. [[1847]])<ref>"Joseph Pulitzer Dies Here," ''Charleston [S.C.] News & Courier'', October 30, 1911, p. 1</ref> * [[October 30]] – [[Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness Herbert of Lea]], English Catholic writer, translator, philanthropist and social figure (b. [[1822]]) * [[October 31]] – [[John Joseph Montgomery]], American glider pioneer (b. 1858) === November === [[File:Christian Lundeberg.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Christian Lundeberg]]]] [[File:Ramon Caceres.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Ramón Cáceres]]]] [[File:Nikola Hristić 3.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Nikola Hristić]]]] * [[November 2]] – [[Kyrle Bellew]], English actor (b. 1850) * [[November 3]] – [[George Chrystal]], British mathematician (b. 1851) * [[November 7]] ** [[Constantin Budisteanu]], Romanian soldier, politician (b. 1838) ** [[Nathaniel Bull]], Australian politician (b. 1842) * [[November 8]] – [[Oscar Bielaski]], American baseball player (b. 1847) * [[November 9]] – [[Howard Pyle]], American artist and fiction writer (b. 1853) * [[November 10]] – [[Christian Lundeberg]], Swedish politician, 10th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. 1842) * [[November 11]] – [[Josef Roman Lorenz]], Austrian naturalist (b. 1825) * [[November 14]] – [[Francis Buxton]], British barrister and politician (b. 1847) * [[November 19]] ** [[Billy Beaumont]], English football player (b. 1883) ** [[Ramón Cáceres]], 31st [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. 1866) * [[November 20]] – [[Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild]], British needlework artist (b. 1824) * [[November 22]] ** [[William George Aston]], British consular official (b. 1841) ** [[John Sanford Barnes]], American businessman (b. 1836) * [[November 23]] ** [[James George Bell]], American businessman, settler (b. 1831) ** [[Bernard Tancred]], South African cricketer (b. 1865) * [[November 25]] – [[Paul Lafargue]], French Marxist theorist, activist (b. 1842) * [[November 26]] ** [[Komura Jutarō]], Japanese statesman (b. 1855) ** [[Nikola Hristić]], [[Prime Minister of Serbia]] (b. 1818) * [[November 28]] – [[Preston Jacobus]], American developer, businessman and politician (b. 1864) * [[November 29]] – [[Stanley Calvert Clarke]], British army officer, courtier === December === [[File:Maximov by Kramskoi.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|[[Vassily Maximov]]]] [[File:Emilio Estrada Carmona.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|[[Emilio Estrada Carmona]]]] * [[December 1]] – [[Vassily Maximov]], Russian painter (b. 1844) * [[December 2]] ** [[George Davidson (geographer)|George Davidson]], English-born American geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer (b. 1825) ** [[Eugène Alphonse Dyer]], Canadian merchant, farmer and political figure (b. 1838) * [[December 7]] – [[Robert Maitland Brereton]], English railway engineer (b. 1834) * [[December 9]] – Blessed [[Bernard Mary of Jesus]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest, blessed (b. 1831) * [[December 10]] – Sir [[Joseph Dalton Hooker]], English botanist (b. 1817) * [[December 11]] – [[Thomas Ball (artist)|Thomas Ball]], American sculptor, musician (b. 1819) * [[December 13]] – [[Nikolay Beketov]], Russian chemist (b. 1827) * [[December 19]] – [[John Bigelow]], American lawyer, statesman (b. 1817) * [[December 20]] – [[Rose Eytinge]], American actress (b. 1835) * [[December 21]] ** [[Catharine H. T. Avery]], American author and editor (b. 1844) ** [[Emilio Estrada Carmona]], 18th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. 1855) * [[December 22]] ** [[Mary Jane Coggeshall]], American suffragist (b. 1836) ** [[Odilon Lannelongue]], French surgeon (b. 1840) * [[December 24]] – [[Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski]], American [[Roman Catholic]] priest (b. 1847) * [[December 25]] – [[Arthur F. Griffith]], American calculating prodigy (b. 1880) == Nobel Prizes == [[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Wilhelm Wien]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Marie Curie]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Allvar Gullstrand]] * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Tobias Asser]] == References == {{Reflist}} == Further reading == * [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9GZMAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP4 ''New International year book: 1911'' comprehensive, global coverage online] * [https://archive.org/details/britannicayearbo00chisuoft ''Britannica year-book, 1913'' (1913) covers 1911 and 1912, global coverage] * [[Gilbert, Martin]]. ''A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933'' (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 225–44. {{Events by month links}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1911}} [[Category:1911| ]]
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