1911: Encyclopedia II - 1911 - Births

1911 - Births

1911 - January-March

• January 1 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (d. 1986)
• January 1 - Dionysia Flambouras, Messenger/God of Wine and much much more
• 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 laureate (d. 1991)
• January 22 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
• January 24 - C. L. Moore, American writer (d. 1987)
• January 26 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, 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, United States President (d. 2004)
• February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)
• February 12 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
• February 19 - Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
• March 3 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• March 8 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
• March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (d. 1986)
• March 16 - Josef Mengele, Nazi Germany war criminal (d. 1979)
• March 20 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1991)
• March 24 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist
• March 25 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
• 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 29 - Brigitte Horney, German-born actress (d. 1988)
• March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (d. 1986)

1911 - April-June

• April 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
• April 6 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
• April 8 - Melvin Calvin, American chemist, 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 26 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
• May 8 - Robert Johnson, American guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
• May 11 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
• May 11 - Doodles Weaver, American actor and comedian (d. 1983
• May 15 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
• 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 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
• May 20 - Milt Gabler, American record producer (d. 2001)
• May 26 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
• May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and Senator (d. 1978)
• May 27 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem
• May 27 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
• May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
• May 31 - Maurice Allais, French economicst, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 13 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
• June 25 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
• June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
• 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 laureate (d. 2004)

1911 - July-September

• July 4 - Mitch Miller, American singer and television personality
• July 9 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
• July 16 - Ginger Rogers, American actress (d. 1995)
• 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
• August 9 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• August 12 - Jane Wyatt, American actress
• August 14 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian yogi
• August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
• August 23 - Betty Robinson, American athelete (d. 1999)
• August 23 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (d. 1998)
• August 27 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
• 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 19 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• September 23 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (d. 2003)

1911 - October-December

• October 13 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
• October 14 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
• October 26 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (d. 2003)
• October 30 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
• November 2 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• November 5 - Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
• November 27 - David Merrick, American theater producer (d. 2000)
• December 3 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
• December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• December 13 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• December 13 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
• December 23 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)

1911 - Unknown dates

• Yolande Beekman, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1944)

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Births", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki