* 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 )

A 1911 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing railways around Bristol

In the fall of 1911 the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway reached the townsite of Rankin, and by January 1912 most of the people living in Upland had moved to Rankin.

* 1911 The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient of Texas Railway is completed.

In 1911 the San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railway made junction with the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway at San Benito.

* 1911 The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway is completed across the southeastern corner of the county.

The Galveston-Houston Electric Railway began operating an interurban between those cities on December 5, 1911, and last ran on October 31, 1936, though the Houston Electric Company, operator of Houston's city transit system, continued to run trains on the portion between downtown and Park Place.

The Copper River and Northwestern Railway reached McCarthy in 1911.

An extension of METRO light rail service is planned to serve the city, opening in 2026, reprising a role played by the Phoenix Street Railway between 1911 and 1926.

The Laton and Western Railway was built to Lanare in 1911.

Recognizing a need for more recreational space, Riverside Park was established in 1902 near present-day 34th Street on the waterfront, and the Tri-City Railway Company opened Prospect Park in the southern part of the city in 1911 as an amusement park.

Originally called Walrath for farmer A. J. Walrath, Amsterdam was established in 1911 by the Northern Pacific Railway on a branch line between Manhattan and Anceney.

In 1911, construction began on the area ’ s second railroad known as the Piedmont and Northern Railway.

In 1911, the Winston Salem Southbound Railway ( WSS ) constructed its own line through Albemarle to support the booming textile and market, eventually driving the Yadkin Railroad into obsolescence.

The Northern Pacific Railway laid a track through Tuttle on October 4, 1911.

( Later, in 1910, the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway Company ( WF & NW, acquired by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in 1911 ) completed its northern route to Elk City.

Electrification and the Oregon Trunk Railway reached Redmond in 1911.

By 1911, the Galveston – Houston Electric Railway had three stops in Dickinson, and the Oleander Country Club was a popular destination for prominent Galvestonians.

The Texas Traction Company completed a interurban between Sherman and Dallas, Texas in 1908 and it purchased the Denison and Sherman Railway in 1911.

Kimball was incorporated in 1911 and named for Frederick J. Kimball, who was a president of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

In 1911, Page created the Sand Springs Railway, an interurban connecting Sand Springs to Tulsa.

Shortly after the completion in 1911 of a new spur line of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, the Great Porcupine Fire swept through the camp, causing great loss of property and more than 200 deaths.

The turning point is the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911, that was a result of the mishandling of the Railway Protection Movement.