* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral ( d. 1761 )

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

* 1645 – Eusebio Kino, Italian missionary ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Joseph Vaz, Indian priest, Apostle of Ceylon ( d. 1711 )

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

Their commander-in-chief that day, Marshal Tallard – who, unlike his subordinates, had not been ransomed or exchanged – was taken to England and imprisoned in Nottingham until his release in 1711.

* François Lamy ( 1636 – 1711 )

* Guillaume du Tillot ( 1711 – 1774 ), politician

The Scottish philosopher David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism.

* 1711 – The London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.

* 1711 – Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat ( d. 1794 )

* 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy ( d. 1762 )

* 1688 – 1711: Philip William, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt ( son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral ( b. 1711 )

* 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian ( b. 1641 )

* 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German-Anglican theologian ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain ( d. 1783 )

* 1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer and organist ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist ( d. 1753 )

* 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( b. 1651 )

* 1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal ( d. 1711 )

* November 23 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia ( b. 1711 )

* Sir Constantine Henry Phipps ( 22 January 1711 – September 1714 )

Constantine Mavrocordatos ( Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μαυροκορδάτος, Romanian: Constantin Mavrocordat ; February 27, 1711 – November 23, 1769 ) was a Greek noble who served as Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia at several intervals.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

* 1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange ( d. 1759 )

* October 22 – Prince William IV of Orange ( b. 1711 )

* Giuseppe Bonno ( 1711 – 1788 ) was Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen in the 1750s and 1760s.

John William Friso ( 4 August 1687 – 14 July 1711 ) ( or Dutch: Johan Willem Friso van Oranje-Nassau ) became the titular Prince of Orange in 1702.

The chief statue in the town is that of Jacqueline Robin, who in 1711 helped the town resist a siege by Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy.

William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau ( 1 September 1711 – 22 October 1751 ), born Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, was the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands.

* William IV, Prince of Orange ( 1711 – 1751 )

* William IV, Prince of Orange ( 1711 – 1751 )

Although the other title for an unavoidable heir, that of Prince of Brazil, was from time to time granted even to female heirs, the Duke of Braganza was always reserved only for the male heir except for two extraordinary creations, in 1683 and 1711.

* 1711 – 1719 Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov – General-Governor

Count Albert Anton ( 1662 – 1710 ) was elevated to the rank of a Prince by Emperor Leopold I of Habsburg, it was however his son Louis Frederick I ( 1710 – 1718 ) who first bore the princely title, whereby Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1711 became a principality under the same entity.

* Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont ( 1711 – 1780 ), French novelist known for the most popular version of the story Beauty and the Beast

By April 24, 1711 Bruchsal had recovered sufficiently to play host to Prince Eugene of Savoy of the Habsburg Court in Vienna.

She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705, HMS Princess in 1711 and HMS Princess Royal in 1728.

After 1711, Manfredini spent an extended stay in Monaco, apparently in the service of Prince Antoine I.

His paternal grandfather, Louis, Dauphin of France and Prince of Viana, died on 14 April 1711.

Prince Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski ( 1711 – 1777 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ).

) Elizabeth is likewise descendant of Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange ( 1687 – 1711 ), who is the most recent common ancestor to all reigning European royal houses.

Nikolaus Esterházy was the son of Prince Joseph ( József Simon Antal, 1688 – 1721 ), and the younger brother of Prince Paul Anton ( Pál Antal ), 1711 – 1762 ).