List of Famous people who born in 1911
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara,, was an Indonesian politician, economist, and latterly Islamic philosopher. An early member of the KNIP, he briefly served as the head of government during the Indonesian Revolution when fellow revolutionaries Sukarno and Hatta were captured.
Ryūzō Sejima
Ryūzō Sejima was a Japanese army officer and business leader.
Predrag Raković
Predrag Raković was a Yugoslav military officer who joined the Chetnik forces of Draža Mihailović after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 during World War II. He became commander of the Chetnik 2nd Ravna Gora Corps and collaborated with the German-installed puppet government in the German-occupied territory of Serbia and later directly with the Germans against the rival communist-led Yugoslav Partisans. His forces briefly cooperated with Soviet forces against the Germans in October 1944, but faced with Soviet demands that they lay down their weapons or join the Partisans, they withdrew from occupied Serbia.
Leopold Hawelka
Leopold Hawelka was an Austrian coffee house owner. He and his wife, Josefine Hawelka, founded and operated Café Hawelka.
Karl Frenzel
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was an SS non-commissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp. After World War II, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but was ultimately released, having served 16 years in prison.
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
Heinz Engelmann
Heinz Engelmann (1911–1996) was a German film actor. He was married to the actress Gertrud Meyen.
André Dewavrin
André Dewavrin DSO, MC was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II.
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia was a Spanish film director. He was born in Madrid. His film Ten Ready Rifles was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
Karl Schiller
Karl August Fritz Schiller was a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1966 to 1972, he was Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1971 to 1972 Federal Minister of Finance. He was the inventor of the magic square, depicting Economic equilibrium, and of the Concerted activity to reflate the German market. He is thus seen as one of the most influential German economists beside Ludwig Erhard.