1911

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 - 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916

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Births

• February 11: [Alec Cairncross]?, chancellor of [Glasgow University]?.
• May 8: Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer.
• May 20: [Annie M. G. Schmidt]?, Dutch children books writer
• July 21: Marshall McLuhan (author)
• December 11: Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.

Deaths

• February 11: [Albert von Rothschild]?, Austrian baron and banker.

Events

• March 25: Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Lowell, Massachusetts
• December 14: Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
• End of Qing Dynasty in China.
• October 10: Birth of Republic of China.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Wilhelm Wien]?
• Chemistry - Marie Sklodowska-Curie
• Medicine - [Allvar Gullstrand]?
• Literature - [Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck]?
• Peace - [Tobias Michael Carel Asser]? [Alfred Hermann Fried]?