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1911 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1911
MCMXI
Ab urbe condita 2664
Armenian calendar 1360
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Assyrian calendar 6661
Bahá'í calendar 67–68
Balinese saka calendar 1832–1833
Bengali calendar 1318
Berber calendar 2861
British Regnal year 1 Geo. 5 – 2 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar 2455
Burmese calendar 1273
Byzantine calendar 7419–7420
Chinese calendar 庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4607 or 4547
— to —
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4608 or 4548
Coptic calendar 1627–1628
Discordian calendar 3077
Ethiopian calendar 1903–1904
Hebrew calendar 5671–5672
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1967–1968
- Shaka Samvat 1832–1833
- Kali Yuga 5011–5012
Holocene calendar 11911
Igbo calendar 911–912
Iranian calendar 1289–1290
Islamic calendar 1329–1330
Japanese calendar Meiji 44
(明治44年)
Javanese calendar 1840–1841
Juche calendar N/A
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4244
Minguo calendar 1 before ROC
民前1年
Nanakshahi calendar 443
Thai solar calendar 2453–2454
Tibetan calendar 阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
2037 or 1656 or 884
— to —
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
2038 or 1657 or 885
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
A highlight was the race for the South Pole.
January 3: Siege of Sidney Street
Events
January
Main article: January 1911
Through mid-January (starting 31 December) – The first Industrial Airplane Show is held in conjunction with the U.S. International Auto Show, at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace in New York.[1] Charles W. Chappelle (1872–1941), a member of the U.S. Aeronautical Reserve, is the only African-American to invent and display an airplane, for which he wins a medal.[2]
January 3
1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.[3]
Siege of Sidney Street: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events.
January 5 – Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is founded at Indiana University Bloomington.[4]
January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
January 26 – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement.
January 30 – The Cypriot football club Anorthosis Famagusta FC is founded.
February
Main article: February 1911
February 5
The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is destroyed by fire, after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome.
The revolution in Haiti is suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, is captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard is executed two days later.[5]
February 11 – The Lincoln Memorial Commission is established, to find an ideal site for the proposed Lincoln Memorial.[6]
February 13 – HNK Hajduk Split, a Croatian football club, is founded.
February 17 – The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs, when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California.
February 18 – The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.
March
Main article: March 1911
March 8 – International Women's Day is celebrated, for the first time in history.[7]
March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146.
March 29 – The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911, designed by John Browning (it remains the U.S. service pistol for 74 years).
April
Main article: April 1911
April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.
April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity; he presents his findings on April 28.[8]
April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17, when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.
April 18 – SS Lusitania, a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.
April 19 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez, but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.
April 22 – A passenger train from Port Alfred to Grahamstown, South Africa derails on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, and plunges into the ravine 200 feet (61 metres) below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.[9][10]
April 26 – HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor of GNK Dinamo Zagreb), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in Zagreb.
April 27 – Huanghuagang Uprising: In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").
May
Main article: May 1911
May 8 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juárez without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender on May 10.
May 13–15 – Mexican Revolution – Torreón massacre: Over 300 Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of Francisco I. Madero, in the Mexican city of Torreón.
May 17 – Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Díaz is convinced to resign, but does not do so yet.
May 21 – Mexican Revolution: In Ciudad Juárez, a peace treaty is signed between Madero's rebels and government troops.
May 24 – Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
May 25 – Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Díaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
May 30 – The very first Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
May 31 – The hull of the RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, on the very same day RMS Olympic starts her sea trials.
June
Main article: June 1911
June 7 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake.
June 14 – RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.
June 15 – RMS Olympic arrives in Queenstown, Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers.
June 21 – RMS Olympic arrives in New York, United States, at the end of her maiden voyage. She proceeds to her quarantine station off Staten Island, which she leaves at 7:45 a.m., and is saluted on her way up New York Harbor by all kinds of craft, as she steams to Pier 59 in the North River. With the assistance of twelve tugs, Olympic is safely moored at 10 a.m.
June 22 – George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, at Westminster Abbey in London. Moored at Pier 59 of New York Harbor, RMS Olympic is decorated for the occasion.
June 25 – The Polish Football Union (PFU), later absorbed into the Polish Football Association (Polish: Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej, PZPN), is founded.
June 28 – RMS Olympic departs New York, for her maiden eastbound voyage back to Southampton, England.
June 28 – The Nakhla meteorite falls in the Abu Hummus region of Egypt, providing evidence of water on Mars.
June – The Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance is held in Stockholm, Sweden.
July
Main article: July 1911
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July 24: Machu Picchu is rediscovered.
July 1 – The presence of the German warship Panther, in the Moroccan port of Agadir, triggers the Agadir Crisis.
July 4 – RMS Olympic crosses the Atlantic to discharge passengers, and mails at Plymouth, England.
July 5 – RMS Olympic arrives in Southampton, England, ending her maiden eastbound voyage from New York.
July 24 – Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru.
August
Main article: August 1911
August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following day.
August 27 – CSKA Moscow, a well known for professional multi-sports club in Russia, is officially founded. (Formerly part of the Soviet Union)[11]
September
Main article: September 1911
September 20 – RMS Olympic collides with HMS Hawke, causing considerable damage to both ships.
September 25 – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, France, killing around 300 on both the ship and the neighbouring area.
September 29 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
October
Main article: October 1911
October 4 – China adopts "Cup of Solid Gold" as its first national anthem. However, it is never performed publicly and is replaced a few months later with a new composition.
October 7 – Liberal leader Karl Staaff returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, after an Riksdag election victory based on the promises of defence cuts and social reforms.
October 10 – The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution, that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
October 16 – Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Díaz, occupies the port of Veracruz, as a sign of rebellion against Madero.
October 26 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants, 13–2, to win the 1911 World Series in 6 games. The game is tied 1–1 after three innings, but with four runs in the fourth, and seven runs in the seventh, the A's demolish the Giants. The most unusual play of the game is an inside-the-park home run made by the A's Jack Barry, on a bunt.
November
December 14: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole.
Franz Marc, Blaues Pferd, 1911
Main article: November 1911
November 1 – The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market, in competition with the Ford Model T.
November 4 – The Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
November 5 – Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).
November 17 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated (the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an American historically black college or university) is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.
December
Main article: December 1911
December 1 – Outer Mongolia, the forerunner of modern Mongolia, is declared independent from the Chinese Empire.
December 9 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee kills 84 miners, despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
December 12 – The Delhi Durbar is held, to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India, and the transfer of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi.
December 14 – Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole.
December 18 – The first exhibition, by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters, opens in Munich.
December 24 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
December 29 – Sun Yat-sen is elected Provisional President of the Republic of China.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published under American management in England, by Cambridge University Press.
New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from experiments involving Rutherford scattering, proposing the Rutherford model of the atom.
Births
January
Hank Greenberg
Zenkō Suzuki
Eduardo Frei Montalva
John S. McCain Jr.
Danny Kaye
Polykarp Kusch
January 1
Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist (d. 2012)
January 2 – Pavel Rychagov, Soviet air ace, air force general (d. 1941)
January 3 – Al Sack, American conductor, composer, and violinist (d. 1947)
January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)
January 7 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
January 10
Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi revolutionary (d. 2013)
Norman Heatley, British biologist (d. 2004)
January 11
Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster and secretary (d. 2017)
Zenkō Suzuki, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
January 13 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 31st Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
January 15
January 16 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1982)
January 17
John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (d. 1981)
George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
January 18
José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969)
Danny Kaye, American actor, comedian (d. 1987)
January 19
Ken Nelson, American record producer, music executive (d. 2008)
Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
January 20 – Wendell J. Westcott, American carillonneur (d. 2010)
January 22
Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist (d. 2005)
Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
January 24 – C. L. Moore, American writer (d. 1987)
January 25 – Kurt Maetzig, German director (d. 2012)
January 26 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
January 28 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic, author, and Yad Vashem recipient (d. 2018)
January 29 – Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
January 30
Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
Hugh Marlowe, American film, television, stage and radio actor (d. 1982)
January 31
Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981)
Baba Vanga, blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant, and herbalist (d. 1996)
February
Ronald Reagan
Jean Muir
Merle Oberon
February 5 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)
February 10 – Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel, Venezuelan classical musician (d. 1986)
February 12
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (Carroll Daly), 5th President of Ireland (d. 1978)
Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
February 13
Jean Muir, American actress (d. 1996)
Paul Stader, American actor, stuntman (d. 1991)
February 14
Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch inventor(d. 2009)
Eduardo Serrano, Venezuelan musician, composer (d. 2008)
February 15 – Glanville Williams, English criminal law professor, QC (d. 1997)
February 17
Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. 1984)
Orrin Tucker, American bandleader, composer (d. 2011)
February 19
Bill Bowerman, American track athlete, co-founder of Nike, Inc. (d. 1999)
Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
February 24
Helen Marnie Seaton Neas, American centenarian (d. 2014)
Louise Weezie Kaderly, American centenarian (d. 2013)
Eduardo Vañó Pastor, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1993)
February 26 – Mien Schopman-Klaver, Dutch athlete (d. 2018)
February 27
Fanny Edelman, Argentine politician (d. 2011)
Egon Sundberg, Swedish football player (d. 2015)
February 28 – Otakar Vávra, Czech director (d. 2011)
March
Jean Harlow
Wolfgang Larrazábal
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Alfonso García Robles
Jack Ruby
Tennessee Williams
March 1 – Mike Gilbert, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2002)
March 3 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
March 5 – Wolfgang Larrazábal, 52nd President of Venezuela (d. 2003)
March 6 – Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet statesman (d. 2008)
March 8 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
March 9 – Ebby Halliday, American realtor (d. 2015)
March 12 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
March 13
L. Ron Hubbard, American author, founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
Marie Rudisill, American author (d. 2006)
March 15 – Ursula Vaughan Williams, British author (d. 2007)
March 16
Pierre Harmel, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2009)
Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
March 18 – Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
March 20 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1991)
March 24
Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
Jane Drew, English architect (d. 1996)
Ephraim Engleman, American rheumatologist (d. 2015)
March 25 – Jack Ruby, American mobster, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
March 26
Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
Tennessee Williams, American playwright (d. 1983)
March 27 – Erich Heller, British philosopher (d. 1990)
March 29 – Brigitte Horney, German-born actress (d. 1988)
March 31
Freddie Green, American jazz musician (d. 1987)
Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
April
Hedi Amara Nouira
Feodor Lynen
Melvin Calvin
Józef Cyrankiewicz
April 1 – Fauja Singh, English centenarian marathon runner
April 3
Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born athlete (d. 1980)
Michael Woodruff, British/Australian surgeon (d. 2001)
April 5 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 1993)
April 6 – Feodor Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
April 8
Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher, essayist (d. 1995)
Ichirō Fujiyama, Japanese composer, singer (d. 1993)
April 13 – Donald Leslie, American creator of the Leslie speaker (d. 2004)
April 15 – Muhammad Metwally El-Shaarawy, Egyptian jurist (d. 1998)
April 17 – Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009)
April 18
Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist (d. 2011)
Huntington Hartford, American businessman (d. 2008)
April 23
Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish communist politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1989)
Ronald Neame, British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter, and director (d. 2010)
April 26 – Paul Verner, German politician (d. 1986)
April 28 –
Lee Falk, American writer, theater director, and producer (d. 1999)
Luigi Ferrando, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2003)
May
Maureen O'Sullivan
Hubert Humphrey
Vincent Price
Maurice Allais
May 5 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess Grandmaster (d. 2010)
May 6 – Frank Nelson, American actor (d. 1986)
May 7 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
May 8 – Robert Johnson, American guitarist, singer (d. 1938)
May 10 – Bel Kaufman, German-born American author (d. 2014)
May 11
Phil Silvers, American actor, comedian (d. 1985)
Doodles Weaver, American actor, comedian (d. 1983)
May 12 – Dorothy Rungeling, Canadian aviator (d. 2018)
May 15 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
May 17
Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (d. 1992)
André Jaunet, French-born flutist (d. 1988)
Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (d. 1998)
May 18 – Big Joe Turner, African-American singer (d. 1985)
May 20
Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
Milt Gabler, American record producer (d. 2001)
May 22 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. 2007)
May 24
Carleen Hutchins, American violin maker (d. 2009)
Barbara West, second-to-last living survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
May 25 – Eric P. Newman, American numismatist (d. 2017)
May 27
Hubert Humphrey, American politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician, mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
May 28 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
May 31 – Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
June
Luis Walter Alvarez
Ben Alexander
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
June 3 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
June 4 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslavian Marxist (d. 1995)
June 5 – Neel E. Kearby, American fighter ace (d. 1944)
June 13
Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
Prince Aly Khan, Indian-born Pakistani imam of Ismaili Shi'a Islam (d. 1960)
June 15 – Wilbert Awdry, English children's writer (d. 1997)
June 19 – Dudley Senanayake, 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1973)
June 20 – Paul Pietsch, German racer, magazine magnate (d. 2012)
June 21
Irving Fein, American television, film producer (d. 2012)
Wonderful Smith, African-American comedian (d. 2008)
June 22 – Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (d. 1994)
June 23
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov, Russian aeronautical engineer (d. 1995)
David Ogilvy, British advertising executive (d. 1999)
June 24
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
Norman Lessing, American television screenwriter, producer, playwright, chess master, and chess writer (d. 2001)
Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (d. 2011)
June 25 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
June 26
Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet (d. 2013)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete, golfer (d. 1956)
June 27
Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
Marion M. Magruder, American officer (d. 1997)
June 29
Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
Lucien Lauk, French racing cyclist (d. 2001)
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, German-born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (1948–1980) (d. 2004)
June 30
Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
Nagarjun, Indian poet (d. 1998)
July
Georges Pompidou
Gian Carlo Menotti
Ginger Rogers
Lionel Ferbos
José María Lemus
July 1
Guy Raymond, American actor (d. 1997)
Sergei Sokolov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2012)
July 2 – Dorothy M. Horstmann, American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician (d. 2001)
July 3 – Ed Clark, American photographer (d. 2000)
July 4
Mitch Miller, American singer, television personality (d. 2010)
Frederick Seitz, American scientist (d. 2008)
July 5
Giorgio Borġ Olivier, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
July 6
LaVerne Andrews, American singer (d. 1967)
Annibale Frossi, Italian football player, manager (d. 1999)
June Gale, American actress (d. 1996)
July 7
Hubert de Bèsche, Swedish fencer (d. 1997)
Gretchen Franklin, English actress, dancer (d. 2005)
Shunpei Hashioka, Japanese-Chinese boxer
Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born American composer (d. 2007)
Red Nonnenkamp, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2000)
Joan Perry, American film actress, model, and singer (d. 1996)
July 8 – Vincente Gomez, Spanish guitarist, composer (d. 2001)
July 9
Mervyn Peake, British writer, illustrator (d. 1968)
Svetislav Valjarević, Serbian Yugoslav international football player (d. 1996)
John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
July 10
Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (d. 2008)
Bruno Vale, Italian football player
July 11 – Erna Flegel, German nurse (d. 2006)
July 14 – William Norris, American business executive (d. 2006)
July 15
Max Seela, German lieutenant colonel in the Waffen-SS (d. 1999)
Hans von Luck, German Nazi Wehrmacht officer (d. 1997)
Paul Zoll, American cardiologist (d. 1999)
July 16
Rafael Aragón Cabrera [es], Argentine soccer leader
Ginger Rogers, American actress, dancer (d. 1995)
Gabriele Wülker, German social scientist, civil servant (d. 2001)
July 17
Lionel Ferbos, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (d. 2016)
July 18
Henriette Bie Lorentzen, Norwegian humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor (d. 2001)
Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
Arch MacDonald, American broadcast journalist, television pioneer (d. 1985)
July 19 – Ben Eastman, American middle distance runner (d. 2002)
July 21 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
July 22 – José María Lemus, 33rd President of El Salvador (d. 1993)
July 26 – Jerry Burke, American musician (d. 1965)
July 28 – Ann Doran, American actress (d. 2000)
July 29 – Ján Cikker, Slovak composer (d. 1989)
July 31 – George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
August
Lucille Ball
Cantinflas
Mikhail Botvinnik
Betty Robinson
August 2 – Rusty Wescoatt, American actor (d. 1987)
August 3 – Manuel Esperón, Mexican musician, composer (d. 2011)
August 5 – Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
August 6
Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and co-owner of Desilu Productions (d. 1989)
Constance Fecher Heaven, British romance writer (d. 1995)
August 7 – Nicholas Ray, American director (d. 1979)
August 8 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
August 9 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
August 10
Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2011)
A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
August 11
William H. Avery, American politician (d. 2009)
Thanom Kittikachorn, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
August 12 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
August 13 – Roy Pinney, American herpetologist, photographer, war correspondent and writer (d. 2010)
August 14 – Vethathiri Maharishi, spiritual leader, founder of the World Community Service Center (WCSC) (d. 2006)
August 15 – Anthony Salerno, American gangster (d. 1992)
August 17
Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010)
August 18 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015)
August 23
Betty Robinson, American Olympic athlete (d. 1999)
Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
August 25 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, General of the Vietnam People's Army (d. 2013)
August 26 – De