Roman Totenberg
Polish-born American violinist
01/01/1911

Wendell J. Westcott
American carillonneur
01/20/1911

Kurt Maetzig
German film director
01/25/1911

Orrin Tucker
American bandleader and composer
02/17/1911

Otakar Vávra
Czech film director
02/28/1911

Ebby Halliday
American realtor
03/09/1911

Fauja Singh
Indian-born British marathon runner
04/01/1911

Maurice Goldhaber
Austrian-born American physicist
04/18/1911

Ronald Neame
British film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter, "Brief Encounter"
04/23/1911

Conrado Marrero
Cuban baseball player
04/25/1911 (Some sources cite 08/11/1911)

Andor Lilienthal
Hungarian chess grandmaster
05/05/1911

Bel Kaufman
German-born American writer, "Up the Down Staircase"
05/10/1911

Maurice Nadeau

French literary critic, editor, and historian, "The History of Surrealism"
05/21/1911

Paul Augustin Mayer
German cardinal

05/23/1911

Maurice Allais
French Nobel Prize-winning economist

05/31/1911

Paul Pietsch
German auto racer and magazine publisher
06/20/1911

Irving Fein
American show business manager and producer

06/21/1911

Ernesto Sábato
Argentine writer and literary critic

06/24/1911

Sergei Sokolov
Ukrainian-born Russian military commander and government official
07/01/1911

Mitch Miller
American recording artist and television host, "Sing Along with Mitch"

07/04/1911

Lionel Ferbos
American jazz trumpeter
07/17/1911

James E. Charlton
Canadian publisher and numismatist
07/26/1911

John Calvert
American magician and actor, "The Falcon" film series

08/05/1911

Norman Gordon
South African cricketer
08/06/1911

Amelia Boynton Robinson
American civil rights activist

08/18/1911

Võ Nguyên Giáp
Vietnamese military and political leader

08/25/1911 (Some sources cite 1912)

Ruth Gruber
American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian

09/30/1911

Pierre Dansereau
Canadian ecologist

10/05/1911

Clare Hollingworth
British journalist, first reporter to file a dispatch on the outbreak of WWII
10/10/1911

Marie Osborne (aka Baby Marie)
American child actress

11/05/1911

Fe del Mundo
Filipino pediatrician
11/27/1911

Ralph Kercheval
American football player
12/01/1911

Louise Bourgeois
French-born American sculptor

12/25/1911