* 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 )

* 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills ( b. 1911 )

* 1911 – Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist ( b. 1817 )

* 1822 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician ( d. 1911 )

* 1911 – Sir Johannes " Joh " Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland ( d. 2005 )

* 1836 – Sir W. S. Gilbert, British dramatist ( d. 1911 )

* February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist ( d. 1911 )

Lloyd George had a considerable reputation as a womaniser, which led to his being nicknamed " the Goat " ( coined by Sir Robert Chalmers, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1911 ).

Composer Sir Edward Elgar lived at Plas Gwyn in Hereford between 1904 and 1911, writing some of his most famous works during that time.

Sir Francis Galton FRS (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911 ), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.

Māori writer Hare Hongi ( Henry Stowell ) uses macrons in his Maori-English Tutor and Vade Mecum of 1911, as does Sir Apirana Ngata, inconsistently, in his Maori Grammar and Conversation ( 7th printing 1953 ).

Childe went on to study for a degree in Classics at the University of Sydney in 1911, where although he focused on the study of written sources, he first came across classical archaeology through the works of prominent archaeologists like Heinrich Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans.

* Sir Joseph Ward, 1st Baronet, of Wellington, in New Zealand ( 1911 ), extant

* Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet, of Cape Town, in the Cape of Good Hope Province, of the Union of South Africa ( 1911 ), extant

* Sir George Farrar, 1st Baronet, of Chicheley Hall, in Buckinghamshire ( 1911 ), extinct 1915

* Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet, of Down Street, in London ( 1911 ), extinct 1917

* Evelyn Rothwell ( 1911 – 2008 ) ( Lady Barbirolli ), oboist ; wife of Sir John Barbirolli, orchestral conductor

Richter retired from conducting in 1911, and Sir Edward Elgar was elected conductor-in-chief for the 1911 – 12 season.

Despite the increase in tensions due to the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911, Bethmann Hollweg did improve relations with Britain to some extent, working with British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to alleviate tensions during the Balkan Crises of 1912-1913, and negotiating treaties over an eventual partition of the Portuguese colonies and the Berlin-Baghdad railway.

* Sir Terence Rattigan ( 1911 – 1979 ), playwright

Sir George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925 ), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, but who was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin.

* Sir J. G. Phillips ( 1911 – 1986 ), Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

* 1911 – 1921 — Gilbert Claughton, Sir Gilbert Claughton from 1912