* 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 )

* 1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

Parker entered his opera, Mona, into a contest at the Metropolitan Opera winning the prize for best composition in 1911.

Vincenzo Peruggia ( October 8, 1881, Dumenza, Italy-October 8, 1925, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France ) was the man who stole the Mona Lisa on 21 August 1911.

This was an early experiment in staging Shakespeare plays as continuous action, as was the style at the Globe Theater when the plays were first written and produced .. Payne resign as director of Manchester Repertory in 1911, both for personal reasons ( his wife, Mona Limerick, did not get along with Horniman ) and because he believed new management could produce more popular plays that might stem the red ink of the operation.

Given the stage name Mona Darkfeather, she was cast in her first starring role as an Indian maiden named Owanee in the 1911 movie Owanee's Great Love.

* December 12-Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in 1911, is located in Florence.

* 1992 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model ( b. 1911 )

* February 4 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model ( b. 1911 )

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

* 1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.

* 1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

Although gold has an atomic number of 79, immediately after Rutherford's paper appeared in 1911 Antonius Van den Broek made the intuitive suggestion that atomic number is nuclear charge.

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul ( 1911 ). Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar, who constructed the great hall Heorot for his people.

BCS theory, proposed by John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer ( BCS ) in 1957, is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since its discovery in 1911.

* Central Romana Port, located in La Romana, belong to Central Romana Corporation which is a private company established in 1911 and has the largest sugar mill in the country.

Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.

* 1911 – " Jana Gana Mana ", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

* 1911 – The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed.

The Collegium Angelicum, established at Rome ( 1911 ) by Master Hyacinth Cormier, is open to regulars and seculars for the study of the sacred sciences.

He was the Hearst newspapers ' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.

The next step, in which two actors facing each other are shown in successive close shots from taken opposite directions towards each of them, is first to be seen at the end of 1911 in The Loafer, made by Arthur Mackley for Essanay.

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.

The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article was critical of the information it contained, believing it should " be received with caution, as the author is prone to exaggerate, and does not confine himself to what came within his own observation.

In which the revolution had ended in 1911, he is still alive in 1914, is a tyrant but he denies it.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

The Christian groups first called " gnostic " a branch of Christianity, however Joseph Jacobs and Ludwig Blau ( Jewish Encyclopedia, 1911 ) note that much of the terminology employed is Jewish and note that this " proves at least that the principal elements of gnosticism were derived from Jewish speculation, while it does not preclude the possibility of new wine having been poured into old bottles.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica related curious stories of him, that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering — yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children — that in an audience he had with

* Johnston Gym — Built in 1911, Johnston Gym is primarily used for music and band purposes.

Gernsback wrote fiction, including the novel Ralph 124C 41 + in 1911 ; the title is a pun on the phrase " one to foresee for many "(" one plus ").

The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going " guising " around the neighborhood.

Founded in 1911, Seacourt Tennis club is one of only a handful in the UK where it is possible to play every recognised racquet sport.