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

In 1911, just three years after helium was first liquified, Onnes working at University of Leiden discovered superconductivity in mercury, when he observed the electrical resistivity in mercury to vanish when the temperature was lowered below a certain value.

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Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.

In Australia, the University of Queensland established its Department of Correspondence Studies in 1911.

In 1911, Cantor was one of the distinguished foreign scholars invited to attend the 500th anniversary of the founding of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was the forerunner of the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, which started in 1911.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

* Mary Flowers, " Fuchs, ( Emil Julius ) Klaus ( 1911 – 1988 )", rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004,, accessed 24 September 2005.

6: 1911 – 1919 ) ( Cambridge: University Press, 1899 – 1920, reissued by the publisher 2011, ISBN 978-0-511-70401-7 )

1911 )( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu and layered PDF format )

* 1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D. C.

In 1911, Stanford University became the first academic institution in the United States to study extrasensory perception ( ESP ) and psychokinesis ( PK ) in a laboratory setting.

In his 1943 Cambridge University doctoral dissertation in English, Canadian Marshall McLuhan ( 1911 – 1980 ) surveys the verbal arts from approximately the time of Cicero down to the time of Thomas Nashe ( 1567-1600 ?).

* Searchable 1911 version hosted by the University of Chicago

* William Bedell Stanford ( 1911 – 1984 ), Irish classical scholar, senator, Chancellor of the University of Dublin

Every year since 1911, Wabash College has played rival DePauw University in a football game called the Monon Bell Classic.

A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913.

After studying theology at the University of Freiburg from 1909 to 1911, he switched to philosophy, in part again because of his heart condition.

Gilbreth completed a dissertation and attempted to obtain a doctorate from the University of California in 1911, but was not awarded the degree due to noncompliance with residency requirements for doctoral candidates ; this dissertation was later published as The Psychology of Management.

His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.

In 1911, he was invited to give a series of four lectures at Columbia University.

With his career prospects in Britain in serious difficulty, Jones sought refuge in Canada in 1908, taking up teaching duties in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto ( from 1911, as Associate Professor of Psychiatry ).

Gilbert's two buildings for the University of Texas campus in Austin, Sutton Hall ( 1918 ) and Battle Hall ( 1911 ), are widely recognized by architectural historians as among the finest works of architecture in the state.

Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in " An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon ," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons ( Publishers to the University ), 1911.