* 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 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia ( d. 1769 )

* 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 )

* 1772 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia ( b. 1711 )

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

* February 7 – William Boyce, English composer ( b. 1711 )

* November 19 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia ( b. 1711 )

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

The latter married her to Frederick William, Duke of Courland in November 1710, but on the return trip from Saint Petersburg in January 1711, her husband died.

John William Friso drowned in 1711 in the Hollands Diep near Moerdijk, and he left his posthumously-born son Willem IV of Nassau.

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.

* William Smith ( scholar ) ( 1711 – 1787 ), classical scholar and Dean of Chester

* 1711 William Hay

* William Nelson ( governor ) ( 1711 – 1772 ), American Colonial governor of Virginia

In 1711, the Taunton North Purchase area became Norton, and in 1713, the sixty-nine families settled in Easton and hired Elder William Pratt as their first minister.

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.

He was, however, able to borrow money against future expectations of ecclesiastical preferment as a result of his close friendship with William Wake, then bishop of Lincoln .” Between the summer of 1711 and the Spring of 1712, Wotton appears to have experienced a Mid-life crisis, and he scandalized the neighbourhood on many occasions by being found drunk in public, or else was known to have spent prolonged periods in local brothels.

William Boyce ( baptised 11 September 1711 – 7 February 1779 ) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century.

" William Boyce ( 1711 – 1779 )" Music and Musicians 27, no.

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

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

On 5 September 1711 William Legge, the Earl of Dartmouth became the ( hereditary ) Viscount Lewisham

In 1711 William Wagstaffe published A Comment upon The History of Tom Thumbe.

* The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, With a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A. D. A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne.

* The Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden ( 1711 ) edited by John Sage and Thomas Ruddiman, with a life by the former, and some of the poet's letters.