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Year '''1911''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the 13-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1911==
===January===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Northern Territory]] is politically separated from [[South Australia]] and transferred to [[Australia|Commonwealth]] control.
* [[January 3]] - In [[London]], in what becomes known as the [[Siege of Sidney Street]], the [[Metropolitan Police Service|Metropolitan Police]] and the [[Scots Guards]] engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of [[Latvia]]n [[Anarchism|anarchists]] held up in a building in the [[East End of London|East End]].
* [[January 5]] - [[Kappa Alpha Psi|Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity]] is founded at [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]], [[Bloomington, Indiana]].
* [[January 10]] - Major [[Jimmie Erickson]] takes the first [[aerial photography|aerial photograph]] (over [[San Diego, California]]).
* [[January 12]] - The [[University of the Philippines College of Law]] is formally established; three future [[President of the Philippines|Philippine presidents]] are among the first enrollees.
* [[January 18]] - [[Eugene B. Ely]] lands on the deck of the [[USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4)|USS ''Pennsylvania'']] stationed in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
* [[January 21]]
**<!--January 21--->First Monte Carlo races ([[Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo]]).
**<!--January 21--->The [[Tati Concessions Land]], formerly part of [[Matabeleland]], was formally annexed to the [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]] (modern [[Botswana]]).
* [[January 26]] - [[Glenn H. Curtiss]] flies the first successful [[seaplane]].
* [[January 30]] - The destroyer [[USS Terry (DD-25)|USS ''Terry'']] makes the first [[fixed-wing aircraft|airplane]] rescue at sea, saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from [[Havana]], [[Cuba]]
===February===
*[[February 18]] - First official air mail flight took place in Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carried 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.
===March===
*March - The first installment of a serialized version of [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]]'s [[monograph]] ''The Principles of Scientific Management'' ([http://www.eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html online version here]) appears in ''[[American Magazine]]''. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, giving a boost to the efficiency movement.
* [[March 1]] - [[José Batlle y Ordóñez]] is elected President of [[Uruguay]].
* [[March 8]] - [[International Women's Day]] is celebrated for the first time
* [[March 10]] - Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first [[blue sky law]] in the United States, culminating an effort by [[Joseph Norman Dolley]], Kansas' banking commissioner.
* [[March 24]] - [[Denmark]] abolishes [[death penalty]] and [[flogging]]
* [[March 25]] - Fire at the [[Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire|Triangle Shirtwaist Factory]] in [[New York City]] - 145 dead
* [[March 29]] - United States Army formally adopts the [[M1911 pistol]] as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.
===April===
* [[April 6]] - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of [[Tuzi]], [[Montenegro]] for the first time after [[Gjergj Kastrioti]] (Skenderbeg).
* [[April 13]] - [[Mexican revolution]] - Rebels take [[Agua Prieta]] along the [[United States|US]] border. Government troops take the town back [[April 17]] when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez is drunk
* [[April 19]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Francisco Madero]]'s troops besiege [[Ciudad Juarez]] but general [[Juan J. Navarro]] refuses his demand of surrender
* [[April 27]] - Following the resignation and death of [[William P. Frye]], a [[Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate, 1911-1913|compromise is reached to rotate]] the office of [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate]].
* [[April 30]] - Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the [[Great Fire of 1911]], destroying much of downtown [[Bangor, Maine]].
=== May ===
[[Image:NYCPubLibrary.jpg|thumb|200px|right| '''[[May 23]]''': [[New York Public Library]] dedication ceremony held.]]
* [[May 8]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Pancho Villa]] launches an attack against government troops in [[Ciudad Juarez]] without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender [[May 10]].
* [[May 11]] - [[Futurists|Futurist]] exhibition in [[Milan]] was the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete.
* [[May 15]] - The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] declares [[Standard Oil]] to be an "unreasonable" [[monopoly]] under the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]] and orders the company to be dissolved.
* [[May 17]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Porfirio Diaz]] is convinced to resign but he does not do it officially.
* [[May 21]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - Peace treaty between rebels of Madero and government troops in [[Ciudad Juarez]].
* [[May 23]] - Dedication ceremony for the [[New York Public Library]].
* [[May 24]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in [[Mexico City]] - about 200 dead (official claim only 40).
* [[May 25]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Porfirio Diaz|Diaz]] signs his resignation and leaves for [[Veracruz]]; on [[May 31]] he leaves for exile in [[France]].
* [[May 30]] - The first [[Indianapolis 500]]-mile auto race is run. The winner is [[Ray Harroun]] in the [[Marmon]] 'Wasp' and titanic was lunched
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===June===
* [[June 7]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Francisco Madero]] arrives in [[Mexico City]] just after a local [[earthquake]].
* [[June 14]]
**<!--June 14--->A national seamen's strike begins in [[United Kingdom|Britain]].
**<!--June 14--->[[RMS Olympic]], sister to the [[RMS Titanic]], begins her [[maiden voyage]] at [[Southampton]], [[England]].
* [[June 15]] - [[IBM]] incorporated as [[Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR)]] in [[New York]].
* [[June 16]] - A 772-[[gram]] stony [[meteorite]] struck earth in [[Columbia County, Wisconsin]] near the village of [[Kilbourn, Wisconsin|Kilbourn]] damaging a barn.
*[[June 17]] - The [[University of Iceland]] is founded.
* [[June 22]] - Coronation of [[George V of the United Kingdom]] and [[Mary of Teck]] at [[Westminster Abbey]], [[London]].
* [[June 28]] - The [[Nakhla meteorite]] (from [[Mars]]) lands in the area of [[Alexandria, Egypt]], purportedly killing a dog.
===July===
* [[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 III|Hiram Bingham]] rediscovers [[Machu Picchu]].
[[Image:Peru Machu Picchu Sunset.jpg|thumb|200px|right| '''[[July 24]]''': [[Machu Picchu]]]]
===August===
* [[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 [[United Kingdom|UK]] temperature until [[1990]].
* [[August 10]] - British [[Member of Parliament|MP]]s vote to receive [[salary|salaries]] for the first time.
* [[August 22]] - Theft of ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' discovered in [Louvre] ([[Vincenzo Peruggia]] is captured and the painting returned 1913).
* [[August 29]] - The Diocese of Kottayam was erected on this day (Kerala, India), for the Knanaya Catholic people of the Syro-Malabar Church. In 2005 the diocese was raised to the rank of Archdiocese. For details on the community see "knanaya" in Wikipedia. Added by JVL (RM)
===September===
* [[September 7]] - [[France|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|RMS ''Olympic'']], sister ship to the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']], collides with [[Royal Navy]] cruiser HMS ''Hawke'' outside Southampton, England.
*[[September 25]]
**<!--September 25--->French navy ship ''Liberté'' explodes at anchor in [[Toulon]]
**<!--September 25--->Groundbreaking for [[Fenway Park]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], begins.
* [[September 30]] - A concrete [[Austin Dam|dam]] owned by the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill breaks, wiping out the town of [[Austin, Pennsylvania]] and continuing downstream about 8 miles into the village of Costello.
===October===
*October - First [[Solvay Conference|Solvay Congress]] - meeting of physicists
* [[October 6]] - The [[British Seafarers' Union]] was formed in [[Southampton]] in [[England]].
* [[October 10]]
**<!--October 10--->[[Wuchang Uprising]] starts the [[Xinhai Revolution]] that will lead to the founding of the [[Republic of China]].
**<!--October 10--->[[Robert Laird Borden]] becomes [[Canada]]'s eighth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[October 16]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Félix Díaz|Felix 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 24]] - [[Orville Wright]] remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a [[glider]] at [[Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina]] setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. [http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/wright/htmlFiles/Oxj4.html]
* [[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===
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[[Image:Visoko2.jpg|thumb|200px|'''[[November 11]]: '''Old district of [[Visoko]] today: In November 1911 it was almost completely destroyed by fire.]]
* [[November 3]] - [[Chevrolet]] officially enters the [[automobile]] market to compete with the [[Ford Model T]].
* [[November 4]] - ''[[Selandia]]'' launched in [[Denmark]], the first ocean going [[diesel]] Ship.
* [[November 5]] - After declaring war on [[Turkey]] on [[September 29]], 1911, [[Italy]] annexes [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] and [[Cyrenaica]] (this act was confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on [[February 25]], [[1912]]).
* [[November 11]]
**<!--November 11--->A record cold snap hits the United States midwest. Many cities break record highs and lows on same day. (see [[The 11/11/11 cold wave]]).
**<!--November 11--->Big fire struck [[Visoko]] burning over 450 [[house]]s and other objects. The upper city area was completely burned, as well all the houses down the main street alongside Beledija.
* [[November 15]] - Prince [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco|Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi]] of [[Monaco]], heir to the throne and later Reigning Prince [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco|Louis II of Monaco]] officially recognizes his illegitimate daughter [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois|Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet]] as [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois|Princess Charlotte of Monaco]].
* [[November 16]] - [[Earthquake]] in [[Swabia|Swab]], South [[Germany]]
* [[November 17]] - [[Omega Psi Phi|Omega Psi Phi Fraternity]] is founded at [[Howard University]].
===December===
[[Image:Humanyu.JPG|thumb|200px|right| '''[[December 11]]''': [[Coronation]] ceremonies in new capital of [[India]], [[New Delhi]], site of [[Humayun's Tomb]]]]
* [[December 11]] - [[Coronation]] in [[New Delhi]] of [[George V of the United Kingdom]] and [[Mary of Teck]] as [[Emperor of India]] and [[Empress consort]] respectively
* [[December 12]] - The capital of [[India]] was shifted to [[New Delhi]] from [[Calcutta]] (now [[Kolkata]]).
* [[December 14]] - [[Roald Amundsen]]'s expedition reaches the [[South Pole]]
* [[December 21]] - First robbery of the [[Bonnot gang]]
* [[December 23]] - [[Constantin Stanislavski|Stanislavski]] and [[Edward Gordon Craig|Craig's]] seminal [[The MAT production of Hamlet|production of ''Hamlet'']] opened at the [[Moscow Arts Theatre]]
* [[December 24]] - Opening of [[Lackawanna Cutoff]], the first of two major cutoffs built by the [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]], just three years after it was built.
* [[December 29]] - [[Sun Yat-sen]] becomes the first President of the [[Republic of China]]
===Undated===
* First [[Urdu]] language typewriter made available.{{fact|date=July 2008}}
* In [[Canada]], the Dominion Parks Branch was established (now [[Parks Canada]]), the world's first national park service. In 1911 it fell under the Department of the Interior, and now resides within the Department of the Environment.
* [[Appleby College]], a Canadian [[university-preparatory schools]], is founded.
* [[University of Wales, Bangor]] moves to new buildings.
* [[1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]] published.
* [[Ernest Rutherford]] deduces the existence of a [[atom|compact atomic nucleus]] from [[rutherford scattering|scattering experiments]].
* [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers [[superconductivity]].
* [[Southern Methodist University]] is founded in Dallas, Texas.
*1 out of every 7 employed persons is a domestic servant in [[Great Britain]].{{fact|date=July 2008}}
===Ongoing===
*[[Champagne Riots]]
*[[Mexican Revolution]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 1]]
**<!--January 1--->[[Roman Totenberg]], Polish-American violinist
**<!--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 in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1991]])
*[[January 19]] – [[Ken Nelson (United States record producer)|Ken Nelson]], American record producer and music executive (d. [[2008]])
*[[January 22]] - [[Bruno Kreisky]], [[Chancellor of Austria]] (d. [[1990]])
*[[January 24]] - [[C. L. Moore]], American writer (d. [[1987]])
*[[January 25]] - [[Kurt Maetzig]], German director
*[[January 26]] - [[Polykarp Kusch]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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]], [[President of the United States|United States President]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[February 8]] - [[Elizabeth Bishop]], American poet (d. [[1979]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]] (Carroll Daly), fifth president of Ireland (d. [[1978]])
*[[February 12]] - [[Stephen H. Sholes]], American recording executive (d. [[1968]])
*[[February 14]] - [[Willem Johan Kolff]], Dutch inventor of hemodialysis
*[[February 17]] - [[Oskar Seidlin]], Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. [[1984]])
*[[February 19]] - [[Merle Oberon]], British actress (d. [[1979]])
*[[February 28]] - [[Otakar Vávra]], Czech director
===March-April===
*[[March 3]] - [[Jean Harlow]], American actress (d. [[1937]])
*[[March 6]] - [[Nikolai Baibakov]], Soviet statesman (d. [[2008]])
*[[March 8]] - [[Alan Hovhaness]], American composer (d. [[2000]])
*[[March 9]] - [[Ebby Halliday]], American realtor
*[[March 12]] - [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]], Mexican president (d. [[1979]])
*[[March 13]]
**<!--March 13--->[[L. Ron Hubbard]], American author (d. [[1986]])
**<!--March 13--->[[Marie Rudisill]], American author and [[Fruitcake Lady]] (d. [[2006]])
*[[March 15]] - [[Ursula Vaughan Williams]], British author (d. [[2007]])
*[[March 16]]
**<!--March 16--->[[Pierre Harmel]], Belgian Prime minister
**<!--March 16--->[[Josef Mengele]], Nazi Germany war criminal (d. [[1979]])
*[[March 18]] - [[Al Benton]], baseball player (d. [[1968]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Alfonso García Robles]], Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1991]])
*[[March 24]]
**<!--March 24--->[[Joseph Barbera]], American cartoonist (d. [[2006]])
**<!--March 24--->[[Jane Drew]], English architect (d. [[1996]])
*[[March 25]] - [[Jack Ruby]], American killer of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] (d. [[1967]])
*[[March 26]]
**<!--March 26--->[[Bernard Katz]], German-born biophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2003]])
**<!--March 26--->[[Tennessee Williams]], American playwright (d. [[1983]])
*[[March 27]] - [[Erich Heller]], British philosopher, long resident in the U.S. (d. [[1990]])
*[[March 29]] - [[Brigitte Horney]], German-born actress (d. [[1988]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Elisabeth Grümmer]], Alsatian soprano (d. [[1986]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Freddie Green]], [[jazz guitarist]] (d. [[1987]])
*[[April 3]] - [[Michael Woodruff]], British/Australian pioneering [[Organ transplant|transplant]] surgeon (d. [[2001]])
*[[April 6]] - [[Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen]], German biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1979]])
*[[April 8]]
**<!--April 8--->[[Melvin Calvin]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|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 13]] - [[William Tuttle]], American makeup artist (d. [[2007]])
*[[April 15]] - [[Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy]], Egyptian [[Faqih|Muslim jurist]] (d. [[1998]])
*[[April 17]] - [[Lester Rodney]], American journalist
*[[April 18]]
**<!--April 18--->[[Maurice Goldhaber]], Austrian-American physicist
**<!--April 18--->[[Huntington Hartford]], American businessman and heir to A&P (d. [[2008]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Ronald Neame]], British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
*[[April 26]] - [[Marianne Hoppe]], German actress (d. [[2002]])
===May-June===
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*[[May 1]] - [[Anthony Salerno]], member of the U.S. La Cosa Nostra and a leader in the Genovese Family (d. [[1992]])
*[[May 5]] - [[Andor Lilienthal]], Hungarian Chess Grandmaster
*[[May 8]] - [[Robert Johnson (musician)|Robert Johnson]], American guitarist and singer (d. [[1938]])
*[[May 10]] - [[Bel Kaufman]], German born American author
*[[May 11]]
**<!--May 11--->[[Phil Silvers]], American actor and comedian (d. [[1985]])
**<!--May 11--->[[May 11]] - [[Doodles Weaver]], American actor and comedian (d. [[1983]])
*[[May 15]] - [[Max Frisch]], Swiss author (d. [[1991]])
*[[May 17]]
**<!--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]]
**<!--May 20--->[[Gardner Fox]], American writer (d. [[1986]])
**<!--May 20--->[[Milt Gabler]], American record producer (d. [[2001]])
*[[May 22]] - [[Anatol Rapoport]], Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. [[2007]])
*[[May 24]]
**<!--May 24--->[[Carleen Hutchins]], American violin maker
**<!--May 24--->[[Barbara West]], Second-to-last living survivor of the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]] sinking (d. [[2007]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Ben Alexander]], American actor (d. [[1969]])
*[[May 27]]
**<!--May 27--->[[Hubert H. Humphrey]], U.S. Vice President and Senator (d. [[1978]])
**<!--May 27--->[[Teddy Kollek]], Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (d. [[2007]])
**[[Vincent Price]], American actor (d. [[1993]])
*[[May 28]] - [[Fritz Hochwälder]], Austrian author (d. [[1986]])
*[[May 31]] - [[Maurice Allais]], French economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[June 13]] - [[Luis Alvarez]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1988]])
*[[June 15]] - [[W.V. Awdry]], English children's writer (d. [[1997]])
*[[June 20]] - [[Paul Pietsch]], German racer and magazine magnate
*[[June 24]]
**<!--June 24--->[[Ernesto Sabato]], Argentine writer
**<!--June 24--->[[Juan Manuel Fangio]], Argentine race car driver (d. [[1995]])
*[[June 25]] - [[William Howard Stein]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1980]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Babe Didrikson Zaharias]], American athlete and golfer (d. [[1956]])
*[[June 29]]
**<!--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 in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2004]])
===July-August===
*[[July 1]] - [[Sergei Sokolov (Marshal)|Sergei Sokolov]], Marshal of the Soviet Union
*[[July 4]]
**[[Mitch Miller]], American singer and television personality
**[[Frederick Seitz]], American scientist (d. [[2008]])
* [[July 5]] - [[Georges Pompidou]], [[President of France]] (d. [[1974]])
* [[July 6]] - [[LaVerne Andrews]], member of the [[1940s]] [[Big Band]]/[[Swing (genre)|Swing]] group [[The Andrews Sisters]] is born in [[Mound, Minnesota|Mound]], [[Minnesota]] (d. [[1967]])
*[[July 7]] - [[Gian-Carlo Menotti]], Italian born American composer (d. [[2007]])
*[[July 9]]
**[[John Archibald Wheeler]], American physicist (d. [[2008]])
**[[Mervyn Peake]], British writer and illustrator (d. [[1968]])
*[[July 16]]
**[[Jerry Burke]], American musician (d. [[1965]])
**[[Ginger Rogers]], American actress (d. [[1995]])
*[[July 17]] - [[Ted Anderson (footballer)|Ted Anderson]], English footballer (d. [[1979]])
*[[July 18]] - [[Hume Cronyn]], Canadian actor (d. [[2003]])
*[[July 21]] - [[Marshall McLuhan]], Canadian author (d. [[1980]])
*[[July 27]] - [[Lupita Tovar]], Mexican actress
*[[August 6]] - [[Lucille Ball]], American actress (d. [[1989]])
*[[August 9]] - [[William Alfred Fowler]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1995]])
*[[August 10]] - [[A. N. Sherwin-White]], English historian of Ancient Rome (d. [[1993]])
*[[August 11]] - [[William H. Avery (politician)|William H. Avery]], American politician
*[[August 12]] - [[Jane Wyatt]], American actress (d. [[2006]])
*[[August 18]] - [[Amelia Boynton Robinson]], American civil rights activist
*[[August 17]] - [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], Russian chess player (d. [[1995]])
*[[August 23]]
**[[Betty Robinson]], American athlete (d. [[1999]])
**[[Birger Ruud]], Norwegian athlete (d. [[1998]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Võ Nguyên Giáp]], Vietnamese General, [[First Indochina War]], [[Vietnam War]]
*[[August 27]] - [[Kay Walsh]], British actress (d. [[2005]])
===September-October===
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*[[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 15]] - [[Joseph Pevney]], American director
*[[September 19]] - [[William Golding]], English writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1993]])
*[[September 20]] - [[Shriram Sharma Acharya]], founder of All world Gayatri Pariwar (d. [[1990]])
*[[September 23]] - [[Frank Moss (politician)|Frank Moss]], U.S. Senator from Utah (d. [[2003]])
*[[September 24]] - [[Herbert Jeffreys]], American singer and actor
*[[September 27]] - [[John Harvey (actor)|John Harvey]], stage and film actor (d. [[1982]])
*[[September 29]] - [[Charles Court]], Australian politician (d. [[2007]])
*[[October 5]]
**<!--October 5--->[[Flann O'Brien]], Irish humorist (d. [[1966]])
**<!--October 5--->[[Pierre Dansereau]], Canadian ecologist
*[[October 9]] - [[Joe Rosenthal]], American photographer (d. [[2006]])
*[[October 10]] - [[Clare Hollingworth]], British journalist
*[[October 13]] - [[Ashok Kumar (actor)|Ashok Kumar]], Indian actor (d. [[2001]])
*[[October 14]] - [[Le Duc Tho]], 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]])
*[[October 26]] - [[Sid Gillman]], American football coach (d. [[2003]])
*[[October 30]] - [[Ruth Hussey]], American actress (d. [[2005]])
===November-December===
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*[[November 1]]
**<!--November 1--->[[Sidney Wood]], American tennis player
**<!--November 1--->[[Henri Troyat]], French writer (d. [[2007]])
*[[November 2]] - [[Odysseas Elytis]], Greek writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1996]])
*[[November 5]] - [[Roy Rogers]], American singer and actor (d. [[1998]])
*[[November 12]] - [[Chad Varah]], British priest and humanitarian (d. [[2007]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Buck O'Neil]], American baseball player and manager (d. [[2006]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Erik Bergman]], Finnish composer (d. [[2006]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Roelof Frankot]], Dutch painter (d. [[1984]])
*[[November 27]]
**[[David Merrick]], American theater producer (d. [[2000]])
**[[Fe del Mundo]], Filipino pediatrician and [[National Scientist of the Philippines|National Scientist]]
*[[November 28]] – [[Václav Renč]], Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d. [[1973]])
*[[December 3]] - [[Nino Rota]], Italian composer (d. [[1979]])
*[[December 8]] - [[Lee J. Cobb]], American actor (d. [[1976]])
*[[December 11]]
**<!--December 11--->[[Naguib Mahfouz]], Egyptian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2006]])
**<!--December 11--->[[Val Guest]], British film director (d. [[2006]])
*[[December 13]]
**<!--December 13--->[[Trygve Haavelmo]], Norwegian economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])
**<!--December 13--->[[Kenneth Patchen]], American poet and painter (d. [[1972]])
*[[December 18]] - [[Jules Dassin]], American director (d. [[2008]])
*[[December 20]] - [[Hortense Calisher]], American author
*[[December 21]] - [[Josh Gibson]], baseball player (d. [[1947]])
*[[December 23]] - [[Niels Kaj Jerne]], English-born immunologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1994]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Louise Bourgeois]], French born American artist
*[[December 26]] - [[Arsenio Lacson]], Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. [[1962]])
*[[December 27]] - [[Anna Russell]], British comedian and singer (d. [[2006]])
*[[December 30]] - [[Jeanette Nolan]], American actress (d. [[1998]])
*''date unknown''
**[[Yolande Beekman]], French-born World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
**[[Jaime Ornelas Camacho]], Portuguese-born politician
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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*[[January 17]] - Sir [[Francis Galton]], English explorer and biologist (b. [[1822]])
*[[February 4]] - [[Piet Cronjé]], Boer general (b. [[1836]])
*[[February 15]] - [[Theodor Escherich]], paediatrician (b. [[1857]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]], Dutch chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1852]])
*[[April 10]] - [[Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis]], Lithuanian artist and composer (b. [[1875]])
*[[April 25]] - [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian writer (b. [[1862]])
*[[April 29]] - [[Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (b. [[1846]])
*[[May 18]] - [[Gustav Mahler]], Austrian composer (b. [[1860]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Williamina Fleming]], Scottish astronomer (b. [[1857]])
*[[May 27]] - [[Thursday October Christian II]], Pitcairn Islands leader (b. [[1820]])
*[[May 29]] - [[W. S. Gilbert|William S. Gilbert]], English dramatist (b. [[1836]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Axel Olof Freudenthal]], philologist and politician (b. 1836)
*[[June 9]] - [[Carrie Nation]], American temperance activist (b. [[1846]])
*[[June 25]] - [[Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy]] (b. [[1843]])
===July - December===
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*[[July 2]] - [[Clement A. Evans]], Confederate general (b. [[1833]])
*[[July 15]] - [[Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]] (b. [[1832]])
*[[July 16]] - [[August Harambašić]], Croatian writer (b. [[1861]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Edwin Austin Abbey]], American painter (b. [[1852]])
*[[August 8]] - [[William P. Frye]], U.S. Senator (b. [[1830]])
*[[August 12]] - [[Jules Brunet]], French military leader (b. [[1838]])
*[[September 16]] - [[Edward Whymper]], British explorer (b. [[1840]])
*[[October 7]] - [[John Hughlings Jackson]], English neurologist (b. [[1835]])
*[[October 14]] - [[John Marshall Harlan]], U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. [[1833]])
*[[October 24]] - [[Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper)|Ida Lewis]], lighthouse keeper (b. [[1842]])
*[[October 29]] - [[Joseph Pulitzer]], Hungarian-born newspaper publisher and journalist (b. [[1847]])
*[[October 31]] - [[John Joseph Montgomery]], American glider pioneer (b. [[1858]])
*[[November 26]] - [[Komura Jutarō]], Japanese statesman (b. [[1855]])
*[[December 10]] - [[Joseph Dalton Hooker]], English botanist (b. [[1817]])
*[[December 22]] - [[Odilon Lannelongue]], French surgeon (b. [[1840]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Arthur F. Griffith]], American calculating prodigy (b. [[1880]])
*''date unknown'' - [[William George Aston]], British consular official (b. [[1841]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Wilhelm Wien]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Maria Skłodowska-Curie]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Allvar Gullstrand]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Maurice Maeterlinck|Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Tobias Michael Carel Asser]] [[Alfred Hermann Fried]]
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