In the year 1911, the first official air mail flight takes place in India, carrying 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km (Feb 18), International Women’s Day is celebrated for the first time (Mar 8), The New York Public Library is officially dedicated (May 23), IBM is incorporated in New York (Jun 15), Chevrolet enters the automobile market to compete with Ford (Nov 3), the Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition reaches the South Pole (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born:

1911-0101 1911-0108 Butterfly McQueen* actress (Gone with the Wind) - Tampa, FL USA (1995/84) 1911-0111 Zenko Suzuki* politician/PM - Yamade, Iwate, Japan (2004/93) 1911-0115 Gösta Bohman* politician - Stockholm, Sweden (1997/86) 1911-0115 Inez Elizabeth Harries* (b Hesser) - USA (2014/103) 1911-0115 Grace Venice Shaw* (b Hesser) - USA (2016/105) 1911-0117 John S. McCain Jr.* United States Navy admiral - Council Bluffs, IA USA (1981/70) 1911-0118 Danny Kaye* (b David Daniel Kaminsky) actor/singer/ dancer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1987/76) 1911-0119 Choor Singh* judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore/philanthropist/writer of books about Sikhism Born  - Kotteh, Punjab, British India (2009/98) 1911-0122 Bruno Kreisky* politician - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1990/79) 1911-0126 Polykarp Kusch* physicist/N -  Blankenburg, German Empire (1993/82) 1911-0202 Erkki Ala-Könni* ethnomusicologist/ researcher - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1996/85) 1911-0203 1911-0204 Viljo Hämäläinen* Titanic survivor w Finnish parents - Merrimac, MA USA (1914/3) 1911-0204 Pentti Saares* actor /clapper loader - Suonenjoki, Finland (2005/94) 1911-0205 Jussi Björling* opera singer - Borlänge, Dalarna, Sweden (1960/49) 1911-0206 Ronald Reagan* actor/politician/40usp - Tampico, IL USA (2004/93) 1911-0301 Stina Hergin* (b Ericsson) translator/sister of Astrid Lindgren - Wimmerby, Sweden (2002/91) 1911-0303 Jean Harlow* actress - Kansas City, MO USA (1937/26) 1911-0310 Warner Anderson* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (1976/65) 1911-0313 L. Ron Hubbard* founder of Scientology - Tilden, NE USA (1986/74) 1911-0316 Pierre Harmel* lawyer/ diplomat/politician/PM - Uccle, Belgium (2009/98) 1911-0316 Josef Mengele* physician/ Angel of Death - Günzburg, Bavaria, German Empire (1979/67) 1911-0320 1911-0324 Joseph Barbera* animator/ producer - Manhattan, NY  USA (2006/95) 1911-0325 Jack Ruby* assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald - Chicago, IL USA (1967/55) 1911-0326 Sylvi Palo* (b Sakki) actress/m to Tauno Palo - Myllykoski, GD of Finland (1987/76) 1911-0331 1911-0401 Fauja Singh* Indian-British supercentenarian marathon runner - Beas Pind, Punjab, British India
1911-0408 Melvin Calvin* biochemist/N - St. Paul, MN USA (1997/85) 1911-0410
1911-0416 Guy Burgess* diplomat/Soviet agent - Devonport, Devon, England (1963/52) 1911-0417 George de Mohrenschildt* (b von Mohrenschildt) Russian-American petroleum geologist/CIA informant/to U.S. at age 27 - Mozyr, Russian Empire (1977/65)
1911-0418 Maurice Goldhaber* Austrian-American physicist - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (2011/100)
1911-0421 Leonard Warren* (b Warenoff) opera singer - The Bronx, NY USA (1960/48)   
1911-0428 Luigi Ferrando* racing cyclist - Acquasanta, Kingdom of Italy (2003/91) 1911-0430 1911-0501 1911-0505 Andor Lilienthal* Russian-Hungarian chess grandmaster/to Hungary at age 2 - Moscow, Russian Empire (2010/99) 1911-0506 Frank Nelson* actor/ comedian - Colorado Springs, CO USA (1986/75) 1911-0507 Trevor Allison* the only survivor of the Allison family that went down with the Titanic – Canada (1929/18) 1911-0510 1911-0513 Robert Middleton* actor - Cincinnati, OH USA (1977/66) 1911-0514 Matti Lähde* cross-country skier/OG - Joutseno, GD of Finland (1978/66) 1911-0517 Maureen O’Sullivan* actress/ mother of Mia Farrow - Boyle, Ireland (1998/87) 1911-0520 1911-0524 Edith Heath* studio potter - Ida Grove, IA USA (2005/94) 1911-0527 Hubert Humprey* politician - Wallace, SD USA (1978/66) 1911-0527 Vincent Price* actor - St.Louis, MO USA (1993/82) 1911-0531 1911-0603 Ellen Corby* actress (The Waltons)/screenwriter/of Danish descent - Racine, WI USA (1999/87) 1911-0604 Edward Carlson* hotel and airline executive - Tacoma, WA USA (1990/78) 1911-0604 Maija Kolsi-Mäkelä* textile designer - Lahti, Finland (1982/71) 1911-0613 Luis Walter Alvarez* physicist/N/ inventor - San Francisco, CA USA (1988/77) 1911-0619 Sigvard Eklund* nuclear physicist/Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency - Kiruna, Sweden (2000/88) 1911-0619 Martin Gabel* actor/ film director/producer - Philadelphia, PA USA (1986/74) 1911-0620 Heidi Blomstedt* (b Sibelius) designer/daughter of Jean Sibelius - Järvenpää, GD of Finland (1982/70) 1911-0624 Juan Manuel Fangio* racing driver/WC - Balcarce, Argentina (1995/84) 1911-0625 William Howard Stein* biochemist/N - New York City, NY USA (1980/68) 1911-0626 Babe Didrikson Zaharias* baseball player/ javelin&hurdlers/OG - Port Arthur, TX USA (1956/45) 1911-0629 Pekka Tiilikainen* radio sportscaster - Kouvola, GD of Finland (1976/65) 1911-0630 Czeslaw Milosz* Polish poet/writer/translator/N - Szetejnie, Russian Empire (2004/93) 1911-0705 Costantino Nivola* architectural sculptor/ designer/to U.S. at age 27 - Orani, Sardinia (1988/76) 1911-0706 LaVerne Andrews* singer/ contralto (the Andrews Sisters) – Minneapolis, MN USA (1967/55) 1911-0709 Mervyn Peake* English writer /artist/illustrator - Kuling, Jiujiang, Qing China (1968/57) 1911-0710 1911-0714 Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber* (b Scharff) Jewish-American nuclear physicist - Mannheim, German Empire (1998/86) 1911-0716 Ginger Rogers* actress/ dancer/singer - Independence, MO USA (1995/83) 1911-0718 Morris Pesin* entrepreneur/civic leader credited as the father of the Liberty State Park - NJ USA (1992/80) pdf - New York Times 1911-0728 Gerhard Stöck* athlete (javelin/OG) - Kaiserswalde, Germany (1985/73) 1911-0805 Robert Taylor* actor - Filley, NE USA (1969/57) 1911-0806 Lucille Ball* actress/ comedian - Jamestown, NY USA (1989/77) 1911-0819 E. F. Schumacher* philosophical economist - Bonn, Germany (1977/66) 1911-0829 Sakari Tuomioja* politician/father of Erkki Tuomioja - Tampere, GD of Finland (1964/53) 1911-0901 Kōmei Abe* 安部幸明 cellist/ clarinetist/composer - Hiroshima, Japan (2006/95) 1911-0909 Paul Goodman* author/social critic - New York City, NY USA (1972/60) 1911-0919 William Golding* novelist/ playwright/poet/N - Newquay, Cornwall, England (1993/81) 1911-0924 Konstantin Chernenko* politician - Bolshaya Tes, Russian Empire (1985/73) 1911-0925 Alexey Lyapunov* mathematician/ early pioneer of computer science - Moscow, Russian Empire (1973/61) 1911-0925 Eric Williams* politician/the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies (1981/69) 1911-0930 Ruth Gruber* journalist/ photographer/humanitarian - New York City, NY USA (2016/105) 1911-1001 1911-1002 Tilly Fleischer* athlete (javelin/OG)/owner of a leather goods shop - Frankfurt-am-Main, German Empire (2005/93) 1911-1005 Pierre Dansereau* ecologist - Outremont, QC Canada (2011/99) 1911-1009 Joe Rosenthal* photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ) - Washington, D.C. USA (2006/94) 1911-1010 1911-1013 Ashok Kumar* (b Kumudlal Ganguly) actor - Bhagalpur, Bengal, British India (2001/90) 1911-1014 Lê Đức Thọ* (b Phan Đình Khải) Vietnamese revolutionary/ politician/N - Nam Trực, French Indochina (1990/78) 1911-1020 1911-1021 William A. Mitchell* food chemist/w over 70 patents - Raymond, MN USA (2004/92) 1911-1026 Mahalia Jackson* gospel singer - New Orleans, LA USA (1972/60) 1911-1027 Leif Erickson* military photographer/actor  - Alameda, CA USA (1986/74) 1911-1030 Ruth Hussey* actress - Providence, RI USA (2005/93) 1911-1031 1911-1101 1911-1102 Odysseas Elytis* writer/N - Heraklion, Greece (1996/84) 1911-1109 Kaj Franck* leading designer - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1989/77) 1911-1120 1911-1125 Sten Suvio* (b Schuschin) boxer/OG/ uncle of Aira Samulin - Hannila, Viborg, GD of Finland (1988/76) 1911-1127 Nándor Mikola* watercolor painter - Budapest, Hungary (2006/94) 1911-1130 1911-1201 1911-1203 Nino Rota* composer/ pianist/conductor - Milan, Italy (1979/67) 1911-1208 Lee J. Cobb* actor - The Bronx, NY USA (1976/64) 1911-1211 Naguib Mahfouz* novelist/N - Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt (2006/94) 1911-1216 Kalle Hagert* Finnish Romani businessman - St. Petersburg, Russia (1970/58) 1911-1220 1911-1230 Jeanette Nolan* actress/mother of Tim McIntire - Los Angeles, CA USA (1998/86) 1911-1231 1911-0 1911-0 1911-0 Updated 2025-0314 Helsinki Search for another year here