Curated category
1911 births
- Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was born on the 6th of February 1911, in an apartment located in Tampico, Illinois. His mother Nelle Clyde Wilson led prayer meetings at…
- Tennessee WilliamsThomas Lanier Williams III arrived in Columbus, Mississippi on the 26th of March 1911. He was the second child born to Edwina Dakin and Cornelius Coffin…
- Mitsuyo SeoMitsuyo Seo began his career painting signs for businesses in Japan. He moved from that trade into animation by working at a toy film company.
- Joan Turville-PetreJoan Elizabeth Turville-Petre entered the world on the 10th of May 1911. Her parents were Sam Blomfield and Kate Barton from Colchester in Essex.
- Ginger RogersVirginia Katherine McMath stood in Fort Worth, Texas, during the summer of 1925. She was only fourteen years old when she entered a Charleston dance contest.
- John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on the 9th of July 1911. He grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, but spent a year from 1921 to 1922 on a…
- Lucille BallLucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, the 6th of August 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York. Her father Henry Durrell Ball worked as a…
- Konstantin ChernenkoKonstantin Chernenko was born to a poor family in the Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes on the 24th of September 1911. He joined the Komsomol Communist Youth…
- Narayan ApteNarayan Dattatraya Apte was born in 1911 into a Chitpavan Brahmin family. His father, Dattatreya Apte, worked as both a Sanskrit scholar and historian.
- Åke OhlmarksÅke Ohlmarks stood before his professors at Lund University in 1937. He had just defended a doctoral thesis titled Heimdalls Horn und Odins Auge.
- Eric WilliamsEric Eustace Williams was born on the 25th of September in 1911. His father Thomas Henry Williams worked as a minor civil servant and held devout Roman…
- Sjafruddin PrawiranegaraSjafruddin Prawiranegara was born on the 28th of February 1911 in Anyer Kidul, Banten. He came from an aristocratic family with Minangkabau ancestry and a…