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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1908 1909 1910 – 1911 – 1912 1913 1914

1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events
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Births
Deaths
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Events

April 19 – Michel Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose debuts in Monte Carlo with Nijinsky in the title role
June 13 – Michel Fokine's Petrushka debuts in Paris with Nijinsky in the title role
December 14 – Roald Amundsen arrived the south pole

Date unknown

The Secret Garden is published
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published

Births

February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
June 24 – Juan Manuel Fangio, legendary Formula 1 driver

Deaths

January 17 – Sir Francis Galton
March 1 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
April 25 – Emilio Salgari
May 18 – Gustav Mahler
May 21 – Williamina Fleming
May 29 – William S. Gilbert
June 9 – Carrie Nation
August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey
August 8 – William P. Frye
September 16 – Edward Whymper
October 7 – John Hughlings Jackson
October 14 – John Marshall Harlan
October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer
October 31 – John Joseph Montgomery
December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker

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