* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer of the Suez Canal ( d. 1976 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress ( d. 1989 )

* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer

* 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author ( d. 1995 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer ( d. 2001 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

The Australian team from the 1911 – 12 tour.

Then England won in 1911 – 12 by four matches to one.

* 1966 – Flann O ' Brien, Irish humorist ( b. 1911 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist ( d. 1985 )

* 1911 – Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist ( d. 1911 )

* 1911 – István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician ( d. 1979 )

* 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist ( d. 1979 )

* 1911 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1911 – Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy ( d. 1963 )

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

* Naguib Mahfouz ( 1911 – 2006 ), awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature

One of the children that Naguib Mahfouz delivered after a difficult labour, was named after him in 1911.

Naguib Mahfouz was married to Fayka Azmi in 1911.

' Heggy ' Hegazi, an Egyptian forward, was one of the first non-British players to appear in the Football League, though he only played one game for Fulham in 1911, marked with a goal afterwards playing for non-league Dulwich Hamlet.

The most infamous reported fatality from a meteorite impact is that of an Egyptian dog that was killed in 1911, although this report is highly disputed.

** Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist ( b. 1911 )

* Some Old Egyptian Librarians, Ernest Gushing Richardson, Charles Sribners, 1911

Colonel Ahmed Orabi or Ahmed Urabi (, ; April 1, 1841 – September 21, 1911 ; also known as Orabi Pasha, Ahmed Oraebi and Ahmed Pasha Orabi el-Masri ; his name was also transliterated Ahmad Arabi in older sources ) was an Egyptian army general, and nationalist who led a revolt in 1879 against Tewfik Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, and the increasing European domination of the country.

Riyad Pasha ( 1835 or 1836 – 1911 ) was an Egyptian statesman.

* The Passions of an Egyptian Princess ( 1911 )

* 1862 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( d. 1911 )

* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )

The Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.

Catherine Lucille Moore ( January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987 ) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore.

* 1911 – Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer ( d. 1991 )

The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.

* 1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer ( d. 1911 )

Francisco Indalecio Madero González ( 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913 ) was a Mexican statesman, writer and revolutionary who served as 33rd President of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination in 1913.

* 1998 – Maurice Schumann, French politician and writer ( b. 1911 )

* 1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer ( d. 2011 )

* 1911 – Mervyn Peake, English writer and illustrator ( d. 1968 )

* Comrades ( 1911, actor, writer and director )

* Misplaced Jealousy ( 1911, actor, writer and director )

* A Convenient Burglar ( 1911, director and writer )

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

* 1911 – Fitzroy MacLean, Scottish soldier, writer and politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer ( d. 2000 )

* 1968 – Mervyn Peake, British writer ( b. 1911 )

Romare Bearden ( September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988 ) was an African-American artist and writer.

* 1911 – Romare Bearden, American painter and writer ( d. 1988 )

** William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )

* March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )