page_title: 1911
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1911 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: Melvin Calvin
context_page_description: 1911 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 and Anno Domini 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.
context_section_description: 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 10 – Maurice Schumann, French politician (d. 1998)
  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 27 – Antonio Sastre, Argentine footballer (d. 1987)
  April 28
  Lee Falk, American writer, theater director and producer (d. 1999)
  Luigi Ferrando, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2003)
caption: Melvin Calvin
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