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the longest of the Kiev bridges, the 1,543 metres long Paton Bridge over the Dnieper River, constructed in 1953 was the first fully welded steel construction of such length at that time?
the 1953 movie Robot Monster was so poorly received, its director attempted suicide?
from 1950 to 1953, the Office of Defense Mobilization was one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S., controlling almost every facet of the economy?
Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley, becoming the first player ever to do so?
Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14, 1950 through October 17, 1953?

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1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents:
Events of 1953 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1953

January

January 6 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
January 7 – President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government in exile in Oslo.
January 14
- Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia.
- The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon.
January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying.
January 19 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeds Harry S. Truman as President of the United States.
January 22 – The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
January 24 – Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother and six-year-old son).
January 26 – Walter Ulbricht announces that the agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany.
January 28 – Derek Bentley is executed for murder in HM Prison Wandsworth.
January 31 – February 1 – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom^[1]

^[2] and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea.

February

February 1 – The surge of the North Sea Flood of 1953 continues from the previous day.
February 5 – Walt Disney's 14th animated film, Peter Pan, premieres at the Roxy Theatre, New York City.
February 11
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
February 12 – Nordic Council inaugurated.
February 13 – Transsexual Christine Jorgenson returns to New York after successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark.
February 16 – The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.
February 18 – The first 3-D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
February 19 – Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
February 28
- James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
- Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.

March

March 1
- Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body, and he dies a few days later after 31 years as leader.
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.
March 6 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 13 – The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld as United Nations Secretary General.
March 14 – Nikita Khruschev is selected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot-Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1,620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 miles).
March 18 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television).
March 25 – 26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.
March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

April

April 7 – Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to 7 years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Rebellion.
April 10 – Melbourne Knights is founded as Croatia SC in Melbourne.
April 13
- Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.
- The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded.
April 16 – President Eisenhower delivers "Chance for Peace" speech to the National Association of Newspaper Editors. ^[3]
April 25 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA.(::Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171, 737–738.)

May

Mount Everest.

May 2 – Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.
May 5 – Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception.
May 9 – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with King Norodom Sihanouk.
May 10 – The town of Chemnitz in East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.
May 11 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas, killing 114.
May 18 – At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
May 25 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole Grable.
May 29 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

June

June 2 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
June 7 – Italian general election, 1953: The Christian Democrats win a plurality in both legislative houses.
June 8
- Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan (the last to claim more than 100 lives).
- Austria and the Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.
June 9
- CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKULTRA subproject.
- Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
June 12 – Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
June 13 – Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.
June 16 – The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia form diplomatic relations.
June 17 – Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
June 18 – Egypt declares itself a republic.
June 19 – The U.S. executes Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying for the USSR.
June 30 – The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan.

July

July 4 – Strikes and riots hit coal mining regions in Poland.
July 5 – The European Economic Community holds its first assembly in Strasbourg, France.
July 9 – The IRS is formed.
July 10 – The Soviet official paper Pravda announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed as head of the NKVD.
July 26 – Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.
July 26 – The Short Creek Raid is carried out on a polygynous Mormon sect in Arizona.
July 27 – The Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement.

August

August 5 – Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated after the Korean War.
August 8 – Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
August 12 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake totally devastates most of the Ionian Sea islands, in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
August 13 – 4 million workers go on strike in France to protest austerity measures.
August 17 – The first planning session of Narcotics Anonymous is held in Southern California (see October 5).
August 18 – The Kinsey Report on American sexual habits is issued.
August 19 – Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see Operation Ajax).
August 20
- The French government ousts King Mohammed V of Morocco and exiles him to Corsica.
- The United States gives West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.
August 25 – The general strike ends in France.

September

September 4 – The discovery of REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.
September 5 – The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept China as a member.
September 7 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
September 25
- A hurricane in South-East Asia kills over 1,000 people.
- The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany.
September 26 – Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.

October

October
- The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
- The United States tests the hydrogen bomb.
October 5
- Earl Warren is appointed Chief Justice of the United States by U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- The first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held (the first planning session was held August 17).
October 6 – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) made a permanent specialized agency of the United Nations.
October 9
- Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German chancellor.
- The Guyanese constitution is suspended.
October 12 – The play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
October 23 – The Philippines' DZAQ-TV3 (now ABS-CBN) makes its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.
October 30 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document of the United States National Security Council NSC 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

November

November 5 – David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.
November 9 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
November 21
- Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.
- Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
November 25 – England lose 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
November 29 – French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu.
November 30 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

December

Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy Magazine; it sells 54,175 copies at $.50 each.
December 2 – The United Kingdom and Iran reform diplomatic relations.
December 6 – With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, Eroica, for the last time. The live performance is broadcast nationwide on radio, and later released on records and CD.
December 7 - A Visit to Iran by American Vice President Richard Nixon sparks several days of riots. Three students are shot dead by police in Tehran. This event would become an annual commemoration. See August 19th .
December 8 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City.
December 10 – Albert Schweitzer is given the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
December 17 – The FCC approves color television.
December 23 – The Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrenti Beria has been executed.
December 24 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River; 151 are killed.
December 25 – Amami Islands are returned to Japan after 8 years of United States Military occupation.
December 30 – The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars).

Undated

The Japanese 10 yen coin is issued with serrated edges for a 5-year period, beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since have had smooth edges.
Heavy massive rain, landslides, and flooding in western and southwestern Japan kill an estimated 2,566, and injure 9,433, mainly at Kizugawa, Wakayama, Kumamoto and Kitakyushu (June–August).

Ongoing

First Indochina War

Births

**1953 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1953 MCMLIII
Ab urbe condita	2706
Armenian calendar	1402 ԹՎ ՌՆԲ
Bahá'í calendar	109 – 110
Bengali calendar	1360
Berber calendar	2903
Buddhist calendar	2497
Burmese calendar	1315
Byzantine calendar	7461 – 7462
Chinese calendar	壬辰年十一月十六日 (4589/4649-11-16) — to — 癸巳年十一月廿六日 (4590/4650-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1669 – 1670
Ethiopian calendar	1945 – 1946
Hebrew calendar	5713 – 5714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2008 – 2009
- Shaka Samvat	1875 – 1876
- Kali Yuga	5054 – 5055
Holocene calendar	11953
Iranian calendar	1331 – 1332
Islamic calendar	1372 – 1373
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 28 (昭和28年)
Korean calendar	4286
Thai solar calendar	2496

January–February

January 2 – Vincent Racaniello, American Virologist
January 4 – George Tenet, American Central Intelligence Agency director
January 5 – Mike Rann, Australian politician
January 6 – Malcolm Young, Australian musician
January 8 – Bruce Sutter, America baseball player
January 10
- Pat Benatar, American rock singer
- Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
January 15
- Kent Hovind, American creation science evangelist
- Randy White, American football player
January 19
- Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor
- Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
January 21 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
January 22 – Jim Jarmusch, American director
January 26
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO
- Lucinda Williams, American singer/songwriter
January 28 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
January 29 – Teresa Teng, Chinese singer
January 31 – Sergei Ivanov, first deputy prime minister of Russia and former minister of defense of Russia
February 2 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
February 7 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (d. 1998)
February 8 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress
February 9
- Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor
- Rick Wagoner, American automotive executive
February 10 – June Jones, American quarterback and current NCAA Football head coach at Southern Methodist University
February 11 – Jeb Bush, American politician
February 20 – Riccardo Chailly, Italian orchestral conductor
February 21 – William Petersen, American actor
February 22 – Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer, actor (d. 2008)
February 23 – Paul Krugman, American economist
February 25
- José María Aznar, Spanish politician
- Martin Kippenberger, German artist
February 26 – Michael Bolton, American pop singer
February 28
- Osmo Vänskä, Finnish orchestral conductor
- Ricky Steamboat, American professional wrestler

March–April

March 1 – Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
March 2 – Russell Feingold, U. S. Senator
March 3 – Arthur Antunes Coimbra, Brazilian footballer and manager
March 4
- Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
- Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
- Kay Lenz, American actress
March 6
- Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
March 10 – Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper
March 11 – Bernie LaBarge, Canadian guitarist/vocalist
March 12
- Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
- Carl Hiaasen, American author
- Ron Jeremy, American actor
March 16
- Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- Bryan Duncan, American Christian musician
- Richard Stallman, American free software proponent
March 17 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino revolutionary (d. 2001)
March 18 – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
March 23 – Chaka Khan, American soul singer
March 26
- Lincoln Chafee, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
- Elaine Chao, American politician and wife of Senator Mitch McConnell
March 29 – Pekinel sisters, Turkish concert pianists
April 2 – Jim Allister, Irish politician
April 3 – Sandra Boynton, American author, songwriter, and illustrator
April 4 – Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
April 6 – Andy Hertzfeld, American computer programmer
April 11 – Andrew Wiles, British-born mathematician
April 14 – Eric Tsang, Hong Kong actor
April 16
- J. Neil Schulman, American writer and activist
- Peter Garrett, Australian musician and politician
April 18 – Rick Moranis, Canadian actor
April 19 – Ruby Wax, American-born British comedian
April 20 – Sebastian Faulks, English novelist
April 22 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist
April 28 - Kim Gordon, American rock musician
April 29 – Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
April 30 – Merrill Osmond, American pop singer

May–June

May 2 – Valery Gergiev, Russian/Ossetian conductor
May 4 – Salman Hashimikov, Soviet heavyweight wrestler
May 5 – Dieter Zetsche, German auto executive
May 6
- Lynn Whitfield, American actress
- Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 7 – Ian McKay, British soldier, (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
May 8 – Alex Van Halen, Dutch-born American rock musician
May 15 – George Brett, American Major League Baseball player
May 15 – Mike Oldfield, English composer
May 16 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
May 19 – Victoria Wood, British actress
May 20 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician
May 24 – Alfred Molina, English actor
May 26 – Michael Portillo, English politician
May 29
- Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
- Danny Elfman, American composer
May 30 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
May 31 – Kathie Sullivan, American singer
June 1 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer
June 4 – Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur
June 7 – Johnny Clegg, South African zulu musician
June 7 – Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
June 8 - Ivo Sanader, Croatian prime minister
June 10 – John Edwards, American politician
June 13 – Tim Allen, American actor
June 20 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
June 21 – Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
June 22
- Cyndi Lauper, American singer
- Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
June 24 – Ivo Lill, Estonian artist

July–August

July 1 – Jadranka Kosor, Croatian politician
July 6 – Nanci Griffith, American folk singer-songwriter
July 9 – François Diederich, Luxembourgish chemist
July 14 – Bebe Buell, American model and singer
July 15 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti
July 15 – Mila Pivnicki, wife of Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
July 19 – Shoichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (d. 2009)
July 22 – Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
July 23
- Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer
- Najib Abdul Razak, current Prime Minister of Malaysia
July 24 – Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senator
July 25 – Tim Gunn, American fashion expert
July 27 – Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker
July 29
- Ken Burns, American documentary filmmaker
- Geddy Lee, Canadian rock musician (Rush)
August 2 – Butch Patrick, American child actor and musician
August 5 – Rick Mahler, American baseball player (d. 2005)
August 8 – Nigel Mansell, English Formula One driver
August 9 – Robert Cray, American musician
August 11 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
August 14 – Cliff Johnson, American game designer
August 15
- Carol Thatcher, British television personality, daughter of Margaret Thatcher
- Mark Thatcher, British businessman, son of Margaret Thatcher
August 16 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
August 18 – Louie Gohmert, American politician
August 19 – Benoît Régent, French actor (d. 1994)
August 24 – Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
August 26 – Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
August 27 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian rock musician (Rush)
August 29 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-born anthropologist
August 30 – Robin Harris, American comedian and actor (d. 1990)
August 30 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
August 31 – György Károly, Hungarian author

September–October

September 2 – John Zorn, American musician
September 4 – Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, American actor
September 4 – Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager
September 6 - Anne Lockhart, American actress
September 7 – Mammootty, Indian actor
September 8 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (d. 1998)
September 10 – Amy Irving, American actress
September 11 – Lesley Visser, American sportscaster and journalist
September 12 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer, artist, and photographer (d. 2004)
September 18 – Betsy Boze, American dean and CEO, Kent State University Stark
September 21 – Andrew Heermans, American musician, recording engineer, music producer
September 22 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
September 23 – Alexey Maslov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces
September 27 – Greg Ham, Australian rock musician (Men at Work)
September 29 – Denis Potvin, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
September 30 – Deborah Allen, American singer
October 2 – Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer
October 9 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
October 12
- Serge Lepeltier, French politician
- Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
October 14 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, writer
October 15 – Tito Jackson, American singer and guitarist (The Jackson 5)
October 21 – Hugh Wolff, American orchestral conductor
October 27
- Robert Picardo, American actor
- Peter Firth, British actor
October 31 – Michael J. Anderson, American actor

November–December

November 3 – Dennis Miller, American comedian and radio host
November 4 – Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
November 5 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
November 11 – Harley Venton, American actor
November 13 – Waswo X. Waswo, American photographer
November 14 – Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
November 18 – Alan Moore, English writer and magician
November 19
- Robert Beltran, American actor
- Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
November 23 – Francis Cabrel, French singer
November 24 – Tod Machover, American composer
November 25 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
November 27 – Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian rock musician, one of the "fathers" of Russian rock
November 29
- Alex Grey, American artist
- Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
December 6 – Gary Ward, American baseball player
December 8
- Kim Basinger, American actress
- Norman G. Finkelstein, American political scientist
December 13
- Ben Bernanke, American economist and Federal Reserve System chairman
- Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player
December 17 – Ikue Mori, Japanese drummer, composer, and graphic designer
December 18 – Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
December 21 – András Schiff, Hungarian concert pianist
December 22 – David Leisner, American guitarist and composer
December 28 – Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese professional wrestler
December 29 – Stanley Williams, American gang member (d. 2005)
December 30
- Harald Schmautz, German journalist
- Dana Key, American Christian musician, guitarist and preacher (DeGarmo & Key)
December 31 – James Remar, American actor
date unknown
- Peter Lord, British film producer and director
- Jing Jing Luo, Chinese composer

Deaths

January–February

January 1 – Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923)
January 4 – Arthur Hoyt, American actor (b. 1874)
January 13 – Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872)
January 28 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
January 30 – Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867)
February 2 – Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)
February 5 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)
February 9 – Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)
February 12 – Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)
February 25 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
February 27 – Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)

March–April

March 2 – Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
March 3 – James J. Jeffries, American boxing champion (b. 1875)
March 5
- Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer and producer (b. 1897)
- Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1879)
March 7 – Edward Sedgwick, American director (b. 1892)
March 13 – Johan Laidoner, Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. 1884)
March 14 – Klement Gottwald, 5th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
March 20 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (b. 1892)
March 23
- Raoul Dufy, French painter (b. 1875)
- Oskar Luts, Estonian writer and playwright (b. 1887)
March 24
- Mary of Teck, consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- Paul Couturier, French priest (b. 1881)
March 28 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
March 31 – Ivan Lebedeff, Russian actor (b. 1895)
April 2 – Jean Epstein, French film director (b. 1897)
April 4 – King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
April 9 – Eddie Cochems, American father of the forward pass in football (b. 1877)
April 20 – Erich Weinert, German writer, Communist, and member of the KPD (b. 1890)
April 27 – Maud Gonne, English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress (b. 1866)

May–June

May 16 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
May 19 – Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish politician (b. 1873)
May 29 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
May 30 – Dooley Wilson, American actor (b. 1886)
June 1 – Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)
June 5
- William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876)
- Bill Tilden, American tennis champion (b. 1893)
- Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887)
June 9 – Godfrey Tearle, American actor (b. 1884)
June 15 – Henry Scattergood, American cricketer (b. 1877)
June 18 – René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894)
June 19
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915) (executed)
- Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer (b. 1878)
- Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1896)
June 26 – Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet politician (b. 1899)

July–August

July 9 – Annie Kenney, British working-class suffragette (b. 1879)
July 12 – Herbert Rawlinson, English actor (b. 1885)
July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
July 17 – Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)
July 26 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
July 29 – Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
July 31 – Robert Taft, American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader (b. 1889)
August 7 – Abner Powell, Major league baseball player (b. 1860)
August 11 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (b. 1892)
August 15 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
August 22 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
August 25 – Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (b. 1880)
August 30 – Gaetano Merola, Italian conductor (b. 1881)

September–October

September 2 – General Jonathan Wainwright, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
September 5 – Francis Ford, American actor and director (b. 1881)
September 7 – Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese politician and military leader (b. 1875)
September 8 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890)
September 12
- Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)
September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (b. 1887)
September 17 – Wen Xiu, Empress of China (b. 1909)
September 27 – Hans Fritzsche, Senior Nazi official, one of only three acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1900)
September 30 – Lewis Fry Richardson, English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist (b. 1881)
September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
September 28 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
October 3 – Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
October 6 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888)
October 8
- Nigel Bruce, British character actor (b. 1895)
- Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912) (breast cancer)
October 11 – Robin Bush, younger sister of President George Walker Bush (b. 1949)
October 12 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician (b. 1862)
October 13 – Millard Mitchell, American actor (b. 1903)
October 14 – Arthur Wimperis, English illustrator and playwright (b. 1874)
October 25 – Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
October 27 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)

November–December

November 8
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883)
November 9
- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
- King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
November 21 – Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893)
November 22 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (b. 1884)
November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
November 28 – Rudolf Bauer, German-born painter (b. 1889)
November 29 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875)
November 29 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
December 10 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (b. 1872)
December 14 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (b. 1896)
December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
December 25 – Lee Shubert, Polish-born theater owner and operator (b. 1871)
December 27 – Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
December 27 - Şükrü Saracoğlu, ex prime minister of Turkey (b. 1887)
December 31 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Frits (Frederik) Zernike
Chemistry – Hermann Staudinger
Medicine – Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
Literature – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Peace – George Catlett Marshall

Ship events

Notes

^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
^ Grieve, Hilda (1959). The great tide: The story of the 1953 flood disaster in Essex. Essex County Council.
^ http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/speeches/19530416%20Chance%20for%20Peace.htm

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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956

1953 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
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Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
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Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Marriages - Deaths - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1953

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes

5 Ship events

6 See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1953

January

January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 12 - Estonian émigrés found a government in exile in Oslo.
January 14
- Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia.
- CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. Official results are to publicly "debunk" them and use the media to ridicule people.
January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying.
January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).
January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
January 24 – Mau Mau rebels in Kenya kill Ruck family – father, mother and a 6-year-old son.
January 26 - Walter Ulbricht announces that the agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany.
January 28 - Derek Bentley is executed for murder in Wandsworth Prison.
January 31-February 1 - North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 132 on the ferry Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea.

February

February 1 - Surge of North Sea Flood of 1953 continues from the previous day.
February 5 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).
February 11
- President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
February 13 - Transsexual Christine Jorgenson returns to New York after successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark.
February 16 - Pakistan Academy of Sciences established in Pakistan.
February 18 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil opens.
February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.

March

March 1
- Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzed the right side of his body.
- Bernard Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.
March 5 - Joseph Stalin dies after 26 years of ruling the Soviet Union. Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev also dies on this day.
March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 13 - United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld as United Nations Secretary General
March 14 - Nikita Khruschev selected general secretary of the Soviet communist party.
March 17 - Nuclear test in Nevada - with 1620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 miles).
March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
March 24 - Death of Paul Couturier, architect of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
March 25-26 - Lari Massacre in Kenya - Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 kikuyu natives.
March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

April

April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced for seven years in prison for alleged organization of Mau Mau Rebellion.
April 13 - Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.
April 25 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA.(::Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171, 737-738.)

May

Mount Everest.

May 2
- Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.
- 38-year-old Stanley Matthews is finally on the winning side in the FA Cup, in his third final.
May 9 – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk.
May 10 - Town of Chemnitz in East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.
May 11 - The Waco Tornado: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco killing 114.
May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake, California Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
May 29 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

June

June 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
June 7 - General election in Italy.
June 8
- Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
- Austria and Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.
June 9
- CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKULTRA subproject.
- Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester killing 94.
June 12 - Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
June 13 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.
June 16 - Soviet Union and Yugoslavia form diplomatic relations.
June 17 - Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a Division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
June 18 - Egypt declares a republic.
June 19 - Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
June 30 - The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint (Michigan).

July

July 4 - Strikes and riots in coal mining regions in Poland
July 5 - First meeting of the assembly of the European Economic Community in Strasbourg, France.
July 10 – Soviet official paper Pravda announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed from his positions as a head of NKVD.
July 18 - Flood in the Hondo island in Japan - 1700 dead, 7000 injured.
July 26 - Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks - preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.
July 27 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement.

August

August 5 - Operation Big Switch, operation to repatriate prisoners of war after the Korean War.
August 7 - Ohio admitted as a U. S. state, retroactive to 1803.
August 8 - Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
August 11 - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake totally devastates most of the Ionian Sea islands in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
August 13 - 4 million workers go on strike in France to protest austerity measures.
August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, see October 5.
August 18 - Kinsey report is issued.
August 19 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see: Operation Ajax).
August 20
- French government oust the sultan of Morocco and exiles him to Corsica.
- The United States gives West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.
August 25 - General strike ends in France.

September

September 5 - United Nations does not accept Soviet Union's suggestion to accept China as a member.
September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
September 25
- Hurricane in South-East Asia: over 1000 dead.
- First German prisoners of war return from Soviet Union to West Germany.
September 26 - Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.

October

October
- The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
United States tests H-Bomb.
October 5 - First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (first planning session was held August 17).
October 9
- Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as a German chancellor.
- Guyanese constitution suspended.
October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
October 23 - Philippines' DZAQ-TV3 made its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.
October 30 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

November

November 5 - David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel.
November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
November 9 - King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia dies.
November 21 - Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.
November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
November 25 - England lose 6-3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
November 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu.
November 30 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

December

December 2 - United Kingdom and Iran reform diplomatic relations.
December 8 - US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City.
December 10 - Albert Schweitzer was given the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
December 17 - The FCC approves color television.
December 23 - Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrenti Beria has been executed.
December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River.
December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars).

Undated

The Japanese 10 yen coin was issued with serrated edges for a five year period beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since and before had smooth edges.

Ongoing

Marshall Plan

Births

**1953 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1953 MCMLIII
Ab urbe condita	2706
Armenian calendar	1402 ԹՎ ՌՆԲ
Bahá'í calendar	109 – 110
Buddhist calendar	2497
Coptic calendar	1669 – 1670
Ethiopian calendar	1945 – 1946
Hebrew calendar	5713 – 5714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2008 – 2009
- Shaka Samvat	1875 – 1876
- Kali Yuga	5054 – 5055
Holocene calendar	11953
Iranian calendar	1331 – 1332
Islamic calendar	1372 – 1373
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 28 (昭和 28年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2613 (皇紀2613年)
Julian calendar	1998
Korean calendar	4286
Thai solar calendar	2496

January-February

January 4 - George Tenet, American Central Intelligence Agency director
January 6 - Malcolm Young, Australian musician
January 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball player
January 10
- Pat Benatar, American singer
- Dennis Cooper, American author
- Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
January 15 - Kent Hovind, creation science evangelist
January 19
- Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor
- Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
January 21 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
January 28 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
January 29 - Teresa Teng, Chinese singer
January 31 - Sergei Ivanov, first deputy prime minister of Russia and former minister of defense of Russia
February 1 - Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, American actress
February 9
- Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor
- Rick Wagoner, American automotive executive
February 11
- Philip Anglim, American actor
- Jeb Bush, American politician
- Alan Rubin, American musician
February 17
- Janice Dickinson, American model
- Norman Pace, British actor and comedian
February 21 - William Petersen, American actor
February 25
- José María Aznar, Spanish politician
- Martin Kippenberger, German artist
February 26 - Michael Bolton, American singer

March-April

March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
March 4
- Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
- Kay Lenz, American actress
March 6
- Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
March 11- Bernie LaBarge, Canadian guitarist/vocalist
March 12
- Carl Hiaasen, American author
- Ron Jeremy, American actor
March 16
- Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- Richard Stallman, American free software proponent
March 17 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino revolutionary (d. 2001)
March 23 - Chaka Khan, American singer
March 24 - Alfred Molina, English actor
March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, American film producer and director
April 2 - Jim Allister, Irish politician
April 4 - Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
April 6 - Andy Hertzfeld, American computer programmer
April 11 - Andrew Wiles, British-born mathematician
April 16 - J. Neil Schulman, American writer and activist
April 18 - Rick Moranis, Canadian actor
April 19 - Ruby Wax, American British based comedian
April 20
- Sebastian Faulks, English novelist
- Michael Q. Schmidt American actor and model
April 22 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
April 29 - Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
April 30 - Rebecca Fransway, American author

May-June

May 5 - Dieter Zetsche, German auto executive
May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 15
- George Brett, baseball player
- Mike Oldfield, English composer
May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
May 19 - Victoria Wood, British actress
May 20 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
May 24 - Alfred Molina, English actor
May 26 - Michael Portillo, English politician
May 29
- Danny Elfman, American composer
- John Francis, Australian musician
May 30 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
May 31 - Kathie Sullivan, American singer
June 1 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer
June 4 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur
June 7 - Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
June 10 - John Edwards, American politician
June 13 - Tim Allen, American actor
June 20 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
June 21 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
June 22 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
June 24 - Ivo Lill, Estonian artist

July-August

July 5 - Tyler Sidell, model American
July 6 - Nanci Griffith, American folk singer-songwriter
July 9 - François Diederich, Luxembourgish chemist
July 14 - Bebe Buell, American model and singer
July 15
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti
- Mila Pivnicki, wife of Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
July 22 - Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
July 25 - Tim Gunn, American fashion expert
July 26 - Robert Phillips, American guitarist
July 27 - Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker
July 29 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush)
August 5 - Rick Mahler, baseball player (d. 2005)
August 7 - Anne Fadiman, American writer, daughter of Clifton Fadiman
August 9 - Robert Cray, American musician
August 11 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
August 14 - Cliff Johnson, American game designer
August 16 - Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
August 19 - Benoît Régent, French actor (d. 1994)
August 26 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
August 29 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-born anthropologist
August 31 - György Károly, Hungarian author

September-October

September 4 - Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, American actor
September 7 - Mammootty, Indian actor
September 8 - Stu Unger, American poker player (d. 1998)
September 10 - Amy Irving, American actress
September 11 - Lesley Visser, American sportscaster and journalist
September 12 - Stephen Sprouse, fashion designer, artist, and photographer (d. 2004)
September 18 - Betsy Boze, Dean and CEO, Kent State University Stark
September 21 - Andrew Heermans, musician, recording engineer, music producer
September 22 - Ségolène Royal, French politician
September 23 - Alexey Maslov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces
September 27 - Greg Ham, band member of 80's band Men at Work
September 30 - Deborah Allen, American singer
October 2 - Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer
October 7
- Christopher Norris, British critical theorist
- Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)
October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor
October 14 - Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, writer
October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
October 12 - Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
October 27
- Robert Picardo, American actor
- Peter Firth, British actor
October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor

November-December

November 4 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
November 11 - Harley Venton, American actor
November 14 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
November 18 - Alan Moore, English writer and magician
November 19
- Robert Beltran, American actor
- Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
November 23 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
November 25 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
November 27 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian rock musician, one of the "fathers" of Russian rock
November 29
- Alex Grey, American artist
- Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter
December 6 - Gary Ward, baseball player
December 8 - Kim Basinger, American actress
December 13
- Ben Bernanke, American economist
- Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player
December 15 - Julie Taymor, American film, theater, and opera director and costume designer
December 18 - Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
December 29 - Stanley Williams, American gang member (Crips) (d. 2005)
December 30 - Harald Schmautz, German journalist
December 31 - James Remar, American actor

date unknown
- Peter Lord, British film producer and director
- Ikue Mori, drummer, composer, and graphic designer

Deaths

January - June

January 1 - Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923)
January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
February 5 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)
February 25 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
March 5
- Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer and producer (b. 1897)
- Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1879)
March 24 - Mary of Teck, consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
March 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
April 20 - Erich Weinert, German writer, Communist, and member of the KPD. (b. 1890)
May 16 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
June 1 - Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)

July - December

July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
August 11 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (b. 1892)
August 15 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
August 22 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
September 2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
September 8 - Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890)
September 12 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
September 26 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
September 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
October 3 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
October 11 - Robin Bush, younger sister of President George Walker Bush (b. 1949)
October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
October 27 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
November 8 - John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883)
November 9 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
November 21 - Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893)
November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
November 29
- Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875)
- Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
November 30 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
December 18 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
December 31 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)

Nobel prizes

Ship events

Notes

People of the year 1953 at Familypedia

3 people were born in 1953

	Father	Mother	Age mother at birth
Marga Bakker (1953-)	P.J. Bakker (?-)	A. Pater (?-)
John Reid Edwards (1953)	Wallace Reid Edwards (1932)	Catharine Juanita Wade (1933)
Jos Tol (1953-)	Jan Tol (1921-)	Catharina A.M. Rood (1925-1975)	2828

0 children were born to the 1 women born in 1953

31 people died in 1953

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Johann Simon Bach (1869-1953)	Johann Georg Bach (1836-1903)	Elizabethe Margarethe Schauer (1839-1917)	8484
Alfred Blackman (1862-1953)	Robert Blackman (1835-1925)	Jane Sloggett (1837-1922)	9191
Emmaline Eliza Buttsworth (1859-1953)	William Buttsworth (1816-1876)	Margaret Ridge (1829-1906)
Herbert George Buttsworth (1873-1953)	James Rose Buttsworth (1833-1902)	Maria Salter (1845-1926)	8080
Sylvester Sylvanis Doty (1885-1953)	Franklin Bake Doty (1850-1935)	Esther Ann Davison (1853-1920)	6868
Charles Henry Everingham (1885-1953)	Nathaniel Everingham (1849-1940)	Matilda Basham (1849-1940)	6868
Edwin Henry Everingham (1870-1953)	James Henry Everingham (1834-1928)	Sarah Nixon (1835-1924)	8383
Mary Jane Fulljames (1877-1953)	Charles Fulljames (?-1907)	Janet Algie (?-1940)	7676
Stella Lenore Hall (1876-1953)	Nicholas Hall (1842-bef1940)	Minnie Matthews (1845-bef1947)	7777
James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869-1953)	James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (1838-1913)	Mary Anne Curzon-Howe (1848-1929)	8484
William Henry Hogno (c1887-c1953)	William Hogno (1857-1928)	Rachel Frances Partridge (1861-1925)	6666
Glenn Raymond Jones (1894-1953)	Isaac Newton Jones (1857-1918)	Sarah Jane Woolsey (1859-1934)	5959
Lulu Eva Jones (1887-1953)	Isaac Newton Jones (1857-1918)	Sarah Jane Woolsey (1859-1934)	6666
Alida Keizer (1905-1953)	Jacob Keizer (1879-?)	Eva Bos (1879-?)	4848
James Wallis Kirkman (1858-1953)	John Kirkman (1829-1879)	Elizabeth Wallis (1838-1876)	9595
… further results

985 people lived in 1953

	Father	Mother
George Ahrens (c1886-1970)	Charles Ahrens (c1849-c1935)	Elizabeth T Turner (?-?)
Henrietta Albury (1878-1954)	Henry Albert Albury (1852-1878)	Caroline Allen Unicomb (1857-1952)
Rosa Algeo (1883-1965)	Charles Lockhart Algeo (1857-1943)	Fanny Crossingham (1856-1943)
Bertha Marion Allen (1872-1967)	Thomas Allen (?-?)	Mary Unknown (?-?)
Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)	Carl David Anderson (1878)	Emma Adolfina Ajaxson (1878)
Ethel May Anlezark (1889-1967)	Louis Napoleon Anlezark (1863-1951)	Elizabeth Susan Baker (c1864-1942)
Minnie Victoria Anlezark (1883-1964)	Joseph Wilson Anlezark (1845-c1932)	Amanda Jane Thompson (1855-c1933)
Adella May Anthoney (1907-1990)	Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Esther Louisa Long (1871-1946)
Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Richard Anthoney (c1837-1929)	Ann Betts (c1846-1902)
Ellen Anthoney (c1868-1963)	Richard Anthoney (c1837-1929)	Ann Betts (c1846-1902)
Robert John Anthoney (c1894-1958)	Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Esther Louisa Long (1871-1946)
Catherine Apps (c1875-c1956)
Ruby Apps (1906-1991)	William Apps (1861-1941)	Olive Mary Hannah Crouch (1877-1926)
Arthur James Arnall (1878-1968)	Thomas Arnall (1843-1913)	Mary Ann Baker (1851-1881)
Catherine Violet Austin (1897-1968)	Frank Urquhart Austin (c1854-1916)	Catherine Levingston (1856-1942)
… further results

Events of the year 1953 at Familypedia

5 people were married in 1953.

	Joined with
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)	Jacqueline Bouvier (1929)
Richard Bryce Putnam (1931-1997)	Connie Rae Carson (1934-1994)
Verdelle C Robinson (1930-2000)	Capers Charles Funnye (1929-1971)
Jean von Luxemburg (1921-)	Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (1927-2005)
Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (1927-2005)	Jean von Luxemburg (1921-)

There were 0 military battles in 1953.

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956

Events

May 29 – The first humans reach the top of Mount Everest.
July 27 – Korean War ends
The Taito Corporation is founded in Japan

Births

January 9 – Morris Gleitzman, English writer
January 21 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
February 11 – Jeb Bush, American politician
February 19 – Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina
February 25 – Levon Mkrtchyan, Armenian film director
March 16 – Richard Stallman, Computer programmer and political activist
March 26 – Lincoln Chafee, American politician
May 6 – Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 25 – Eve Ensler, American playwright
May 29 – Danny Elfman, American musician
June 4 – Linda Lingle, American politician
June 21 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician
June 29 – Geddy Lee, Canadian musician and singer (Rush)
July 11- Leon Spinks, boxer
July 31 – James Read, American actor
August 29 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian musician
September 3 – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French director
September 22 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
October 1 – Klaus Wowereit, German politician
November 14 – Dominique de Villepin, Premier of France
November 14 – Jos Oehlen, Dutch sculptor
December 27 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 2007)
December 9 – John Malkovich, American actor and director

Deaths

January 1 – Hank Williams, American musician
January 28 – James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
March 5 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b.1878)
March 5 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
September 29 – Ernst Reuter, German politician (b. 1889)
October 9 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
November 9 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1914)krc:1953 джылrue:1953

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March–April

May–June

July–August

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February

March

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June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Deaths

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