* 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 )

* April 30 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator ( b. 1911 )

* 1911 – Otakar Vávra, Czech film director ( d. 2011 )

* Czech — Kubišta, Bohumil: Pierrot ( 1911 ).

Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

Ignác Šechtl ( 26 May 1840-6 July 1911 ), also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography ( especially photojournalism ) and cinematography.

It was originally used by the Czech historian Konstantin Jireček in 1911 in a history of the Slavic people.

Teaching Chemistry at BUT dates back to 1911 when there was established Department of Chemistry at the Czech Technical University.

Josef Ladislav Píč ( January 19, 1847 in Mšeno near Mělník – December 19, 1911 in Prague ) was Czech archaeologist and paleontologist, one of founders of modern Czech archaeology.

The exhibition focuses on Czech artists in the period from 1911 to 1919, when Cubism was in its heyday in both the visual arts and in architecture.

In 1911, he received much positive attention in the Czech community in Chicago for his fundraising efforts in the search for Elsie Paroubek, and paid for the child's funeral when her body was discovered.

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.

* 1911 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist ( d. 1992 )

* 1969 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist ( b. 1911 )

* 1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( d. 1972 )

* 1911 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner ( d. 1984 )

* 1992 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist ( b. 1911 )

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

* 1911 – Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet ( d. 2004 )

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

* 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet ( d. 1996 )

CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours — was a humanitarian campaigner and an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist.

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

* 1911 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1993 )

* December 2 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist ( b. 1911 ).

** Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet ( b 1911 )

** Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( b. 1911 )

* October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet ( b. 1911 )

In 1911, the poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire accepted the term on behalf of a group of artists invited to exhibit at the Brussels Indépendants.

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

Leah Goldberg (; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem ) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.

* Odysseas Elytis ( 1911 – 1996 ) Nobel awarded poet