BORN 1911
Turning 101 in 2012
Roman Totenberg Polish-born American violinist 01/01/1911
Kurt Maetzig German film director, "The Rabbit Is Me" 01/25/1911
Ebby Halliday American realtor 03/09/1911
Fauja Singh Indian-born British marathon runner 04/01/1911
Connie Marrero Cuban baseball player, Washington Senators pitcher (1950-1954) 04/25/1911 (Some sources cite 08/11/1911)
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
Irving Fein American film and television producer, manager of comedians Jack Benny and George Burns 06/21/1911
Sergei Sokolov Ukrainian-born Russian military commander and government official 07/01/1911
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
Clare Hollingworth British journalist, first reporter to file a dispatch on the outbreak of World War II 10/10/1911
Last modified: January 19, 2012