A presence during the unrest in Côte d ' Ivoire, 2010 – 2011, were not officially confirmed.

* 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1921 – Tove Maës, Danish actress ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1925 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer ( d. 2011 )

* 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – A peaceful march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

Chris Tremlett bowls Michael Beer ( cricketer ) | Michael Beer to complete England's 3 – 1 Ashes victory on 7 January 2011

* 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Wax ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer ( The Grass Roots ) ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor ( b. 1945 )

* 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1937 – Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player ( d. 2011 )

* 1993 – Ben Breedlove, American blogger ( d. 2011 )

* 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician and songwriter ( The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel ) ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

* 1936 – Trevor Bannister, English actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1927 – Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer ( d. 2011 )

* 1928 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2011 )

* 1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, English author ( d. 2011 )

* How to Bypass Internet Censorship, also known by the titles: Bypassing Internet Censorship or Circumvention Tools, a FLOSS Manual, 10 March 2011, 240 pp. Translations have been published in Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Spanish.

The 2011 contemporary classical concept album Troika is composed of new orchestral songs set to Russian, English, and French-language poetry by five multilingual Russian-born writers: Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.

* 1923 – Yelena Bonner, Russian activist, widow of Andrei Sakharov ( d. 2011 )

The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces have 369 ICBMs able to deliver 1, 247 nuclear warheads, 58 silo-based R-36M2 ( SS-18 ), 70 silo-based UR-100N ( SS-19 ), 171 mobile RT-2PM " Topol " ( SS-25 ), 52 silo-based RT-2UTTH " Topol M " ( SS-27 ), 18 mobile RT-2UTTH " Topol M " ( SS-27 ), 6 ( 15 in December 2011 ) mobile RS-24 " Yars " ( SS-29 ) ( Future replacement for R-36 & UR-100N missiles )

The current Board members are: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Mongolia, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela ( IAEA Board of Governors 2010 – 2011 ).

* 1912 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer ( b. 1920 )

In Russia it was renamed to Police ( in Russian: Полиция, Politsiya ) in March 2011.

* 2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian skijumper ( b. 1989 )

The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, which was developed by the Planetary Society, intended to send selected microorganisms on a three-year interplanetary round-trip in a small capsule aboard the Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft in 2011.

In December 2011, Rostelecom signed an agreement with Yota, a Russian mobile broadband provider, to jointly develop and use 4G wireless networks.

The launch was once again postponed until April 29, 2011, in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with a Russian supply vehicle heading for the International Space Station.

In September 2011, Putin and Medvedev announced he would seek a third, non-consecutive term in the 2012 presidential election, an announcement which led to large-scale protests in many Russian cities.

* February 28 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author ( d. 2011 )

* March 1 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer ( d. 2011 )

According to the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Russia has 112 think tanks, while Russian think tanks claimed four of the top ten spots in 2011 ’ s " Top Thirty Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe ".

* Two song settings of Vladimir Nabokov's poem " Provence " in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika.

Bolivia led a diplomatic effort to do so beginning in March 2009, but eighteen countries out of a total of 184, those 18 being listed as followed ( chronologically: the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Latvia, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, Russian Federation, Malaysia, Singapore, and Ukraine ) objected to the change before the January 2011 deadline.

On 18 December 2011 the Russian oil drilling rig Kolskaya capsized and sank in a storm in the Sea of Okhotsk, some 124 km from Sakhalin Island, where it was being towed from Kamchatka.

On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.

; Шоу ни бе ни ме нехило ( Shou ni be ni me nehilo, Russia ): Russian analogue, first time aired 23rd Jan 2011.

In 2011, Showtime announced they were expanding their MMA programming by televising events produced by M-1 Global, the Russian PTC company of popular Strikeforce fighter Fedor Emelianenko.

The captain and hero, Ibrahim Afellay, was sold to giants FC Barcelona in the winter transfer window, and Hungarian winger Balázs Dzsudzsák moved to the newly rich Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in the summer of 2011.

In the 2011 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, in which a hypothetical World War III is depicted, a French resistance movement is formed to act against Russian occupation.