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Year '''1953''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1953 ==
===January===
* [[January 7]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] announces the [[United States]] has developed a [[hydrogen bomb]].
* [[January 12]] - [[Estonia]]n [[émigré]]s found a [[Estonian Government in Exile|government in exile]] in [[Oslo]].
* [[January 14]]
**Marshal [[Josip Broz Tito]] chosen President of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
**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]] - Change of [[President of the United States|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 theatre|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 [[collectivization|collectivized]] in [[East Germany]].
* [[January 28]] - [[Derek Bentley]] is executed for murder in [[Wandsworth (HM Prison)|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]] [[MV Princess Victoria|''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 (1953 movie)|Peter Pan]]'' premieres (Roxy Theatre, [[New York City]]).
* [[February 11]]
**President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|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 [[3-D film|3D film]], ''[[Bwana Devil]]'' opens.
* [[February 19]] - [[Censorship]]: [[Georgia (U.S. state)|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.
** [[Greece]], [[Turkey]], and [[Yugoslavia]] have signed the [[Balkan Pact (1953)|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 [[paralyzed]] the right side of his body.
**[[Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron 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 [[Joseph Stalin]] as [[Premier of the Soviet Union|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 19]] - [[25th Academy Awards]] ceremony, the first one broadcast on television.
* [[March 24]] - Death of [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]]
* [[March 25]] - [[March 26|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 seven years in prison for alleged organization of [[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 (novel)|Casino Royale]]'' in the [[United Kingdom]]. * German football team SG Dynamo Dresden are founded
* [[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). [http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/index.html Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid]. ''Nature'' '''171''', 737-738.)
===May===
[[Image:Sagarmatha ck Oct18 2002.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Mount Everest]].]]
* [[May 1]] Guy Degrenne's timeless teapot [[Salam]] is designed.
* [[May 2]]
**[[Hussein of Jordan|Hussein]] is crowned [[King of Jordan]].
**38-year-old [[Stanley Matthews]] is finally on the winning side in the [[FA Cup]], in [[FA Cup Final 1953|his third final]].
* [[5 May]] - [[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 the king [[Norodom Sihanouk]].
* [[May 10]] - Town of [[Chemnitz]] in [[East Germany]] becomes ''Karl Marx Stadt''.
* [[May 11]] - The [[1953 Waco tornado outbreak]]: A [[Fujita scale|F5]] tornado hits in the downtown section of [[Waco, Texas]] 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|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]] - [[Italian general election, 1953|General election]] in [[Italy]].
* [[June 8]]
**[[Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence]]: A [[tornado]] hits in [[Flint, Michigan]] and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
**[[Austria]] and [[Soviet Union]] form [[diplomatic relations]].
* [[June 9]]
**[[Central Intelligence Agency|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]] - [[Hungary|Hungarian]] Prime Minister [[Mátyás Rákosi]] is replaced by [[Imre Nagy]].
* [[June 16]] - [[Soviet Union]] and [[Yugoslavia]] form [[diplomatic relations]].
* [[June 17]] - [[Workers Uprising of 1953 in East Germany|Workers Uprising]]: In [[East Germany]], the [[Soviet Union]] orders a [[Division (military)|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]] - [[Strike action|Strike]]s and [[riot]]s 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 26]] - [[Fidel Castro]] and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the [[Moncada Barracks]] - preliminary to the [[Cuban Revolution]].
* [[July 26]] - [[Short Creek Raid]] on polygynous [[Mormon]] sect
* [[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 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]] - [[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: [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|Operation Ajax]]).
* [[August 20]]
**[[France|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 Union|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 [[Sugar-cane|cane sugar]] ends in the [[United Kingdom|UK]].
===October===
* October
**The [[UNIVAC 1103]] is the first commercial [[computer]] to use [[random access memory]].
*[[United States]] tests H-Bomb.
* [[October 5]] - [[Earl Warren]] appointed [[Chief Justice]] of the US [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] by US president [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
* [[October 5]] - First meeting of [[Narcotics Anonymous]] (first planning session was held August 17).
* [[October 9]]
**[[Konrad Adenauer]] is re-elected as German [[chancellor]].
**[[British Guiana|Guyanese]] constitution suspended.
* [[October 12]] - The play "[[The Caine Mutiny Court Martial]]" opens at [[Plymouth Theatre]], [[New York]].
* [[October 23]] - [[Philippines]]' [[DWWX-TV|DZAQ-TV3]] (now [[ABS-CBN]]) 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 of the [[United States National Security Council|United Stats National Security Council NSC 162/2]], which states that the [[United States]]' arsenal of [[nuclear weapon]]s must be maintained and expanded to counter the [[communism|communist]] threat.
===November===
* [[November 5]] - [[David Ben-Gurion]] resigns as a [[prime minister]] of [[Israel]].
* [[November 9]] - [[Cambodia]] becomes [[independent (nation)|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 v Hungary (1953)|England lose 6-3 to Hungary]] at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
* [[November 29]] - French [[paratrooper]]s take [[Dien Bien Phu]].
* [[November 30]] - [[Mutesa II of Buganda|Edward Mutesa II]], the ''[[Kabaka of Buganda|kabaka]]'' (king) of [[Buganda]] is deposed and exiled to London by [[Andrew Cohen (colonial governor)|Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen]], Governor of [[Uganda]].
===December===
* [[Hugh Hefner]] publishes the first issue of [[Playboy]] Magazine, selling 54,175 copies at $.50 each.
* [[December 2]] - [[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, the [[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Eroica]], for the last time. The live performance is broadcast nationwide on radio, and later released on records and CD.
* [[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 dollar]]s).
===Undated===
* The [[Japan]]ese [[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.
* Heavy massive rain, landslide, flood occurred western and southwestern [[Japan]]. Japanese official estimated 2,566 dead, 9,433 injured, mainly damarged at [[Kizugawa]], [[Wakayama]], [[Kumamoto]] and [[Kitakyushu]]. (June-August)
* The videogame [[Portal (video game)|Portal]]'s [[(Valve, 2007)]] fictional company Aperture Science is founded
===Ongoing===
* [[Marshall Plan]]
* [[First Indochina War]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
*[[January 4]] - [[George Tenet]], former director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
*[[January 4]] - Timothy F. Bresnahan, American economist
*[[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
**[[Randy White (American football)|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 23]] - [[John Luther Adams]], American composer
*[[January 26]] - [[Anders Fogh Rasmussen]], [[Prime Minister of Denmark]]
*[[January 28]] - [[Colin Campbell (hockey)|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]], former Major League 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]], former National Football League quarterback and current NCAA Football Head Coach at Southern Methodist University.
*[[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 20]] - [[Riccardo Chailly]], Italian conductor
*[[February 21]] - [[William Petersen]], American actor
*[[February 23]] - [[Paul Krugman]], American economist
*[[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 2]] - [[Russell Feingold]], U. S. Senator (D. Wisconsin)
*[[March 4]]
**[[Emilio Estefan]], Cuban percussionist
**[[Kay Lenz]], American actress
*[[March 6]]
**[[Jan Kjærstad]], Norwegian author
**[[Jacklyn Zeman]], American actress
*[[March 7]] - [[Leon Sylvers III]], singer, writer, music producer
*[[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
**[[Richard Stallman]], American free software proponent
*[[March 17]] - [[Filemon Lagman]], Filipino revolutionary (d. [[2001]])
*[[March 18]] - [[Takashi Yoshimatsu]], Japanese composer
*[[March 22]] - [[Kenneth Rogoff]], American economist
*[[March 23]] - [[Chaka Khan]], American singer
*[[March 24]] - [[Alfred Molina]], English actor
*[[March 26]] - [[Lincoln Chafee]], former U. S. Senator (R. Rhode Island)
*[[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 2]] - [[David Robinson]], American drummer
*[[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 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 (actor)| 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]], former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
*[[May 7]] - [[Ian McKay]], British soldier, ([[VC]] recipient) (d. [[1982]])
*[[May 8]] - [[Alex Van Halen]], Dutch-born musician
*[[May 15]] - [[George Brett (baseball)|George Brett]], 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]] - [[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]] (d. [[2007]])
*[[June 22]] - [[Cyndi Lauper]], American singer
*[[June 24]] - [[Ivo Lill]], Estonian artist
===July-August===
*[[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 24]] - [[Claire McCaskill]], U. S. Senator (D. Missouri)
*[[July 25]] - [[Tim Gunn]], American fashion expert
*[[July 26]] - [[Robert Phillips (Guitarist)|Robert Phillips]], American guitarist
*[[July 27]] - [[Yahoo Serious]], Australian filmmaker
*[[July 29]] - [[Ken Burns]], American documentary filmmaker
*[[July 29]] - [[Geddy Lee]], Canadian musician ([[Rush (band)|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 (game designer)|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 24]] - [[Ron Holloway]], American tenor saxophonist
* [[August 26]] - [[Pat Sharkey]], Irish footballer
* [[August 27]] - [[Alex Lifeson]], Canadian musician ([[Rush (band)|Rush]]
* [[August 29]] - [[James Quesada]], Nicaraguan-born anthropologist
* [[August 30]] - [[Robert Parish]], former National Basketball League player
* [[August 31]] - [[György Károly]], Hungarian author
===September-October===
*[[September 2]] - [[John Zorn]], American musician
*[[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 22]] - [[Geoff Gilpin]], American author
*[[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 29]] - [[Denis Potvin]], Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
*[[September 30]] - [[Deborah Allen]], American singer
* [[October 2]] - [[Brandon Wilson]], American author and explorer
* [[October 7]]
**[[Christopher Norris (critic)|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 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 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]], [[Russians|Russian]] [[rock music]]ian, 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 8]] - [[Norman G. Finkelstein]], American political scientist
*[[December 13]]
**[[Ben Bernanke]], American economist
**[[Bob Gainey]], former [[National Hockey League]] player
*[[December 15]] - [[Julie Taymor]], American film, theater, and opera director and costume designer
*[[December 18]] - [[Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov]], Chechen bard
*[[December 21]] - [[András Schiff]], Hungarian concert pianist
*[[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
**[[Jing Jing Luo]], Chinese composer of classical music
**[[Karla DeVito]], American singer, actress, and songwriter
==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 24]] - [[Paul Couturier]], architect of the [[Week of Prayer for Christian Unity]](b. [[1881]])
*[[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 (footballer)|Alex James]], Scottish football (soccer) player (b. [[1901]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Lavrentiy Beria]], Soviet politician (b.[[1899]])
===July - December===
*[[July 26]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (b. [[1883]])
*[[July 29]] - [[Richard Pearse|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]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Jessie Aspinall]], Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]] (b. [[1880]])
*[[September 2]] - [[Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV|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 in Literature|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]])
**King [[Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia]] (b. [[1880]])
*[[November 21]] - [[Larry Shields]], American musician (b. [[1893]])
*[[November 27]] - [[Eugene O'Neill]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1868]])
*[[December 27]] - [[Julian Tuwim]], Polish poet (b. [[1894]])
*[[December 31]] - [[Albert Plesman]], Dutch aviation pioneer (b. [[1889]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Frits Zernike|Frits (Frederik) Zernike]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Hermann Staudinger]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Hans Adolf Krebs]], [[Fritz Albert Lipmann]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[George Catlett Marshall]]
==Ship events==
* [[List of ship launches in 1953]]
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1953]]
==Notes==
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