1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events of 1953 [edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November SORRY BUT THIS LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED[www.vv.com] [edit] December [edit] 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).
[edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] 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
- January 15
- January 19
- January 21 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
- January 22 – Jim Jarmusch, American director
- January 26
- 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
- February 10 – June Jones, American quarterback and current NCAA Football head coach at Southern Methodist University
- February 11 – Jeb Bush, American politician
- February 17 – Janice Dickinson, American model
- 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
- February 26 – Michael Bolton, American pop singer
- February 28
[edit] 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
- March 6
- March 10 – Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper
- March 11 – Bernie LaBarge, Canadian guitarist/vocalist
- March 12
- March 16
- March 17 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino revolutionary (d. 2001)
- March 18 – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
- March 23 – Chaka Khan, American soul singer
- March 26
- 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
- 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 29 – Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
- April 30 – Merrill Osmond, American pop singer
[edit] 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
- 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
- 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 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
[edit] 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
- July 24 – Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senator
- July 25 – Tim Gunn, American fashion expert
- July 27 – Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker
- July 29
- 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
[edit] September–October - September 2 – John Zorn, American musician
- September 4 – Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, American actor
- September 4 – Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager
- 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
- 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
- October 31 – Michael J. Anderson, American actor
[edit] 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
- 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
- December 6 – Gary Ward, American baseball player
- December 8
- December 13
- 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
- December 31 – James Remar, American actor
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths [edit] 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)
[edit] March–April - March 2 – Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
- March 3 – James J. Jeffries, American boxing champion (b. 1875)
- March 5
- March 7 – Edward Sedgwick, American director (b. 1892)
- March 13 – Johan Laidoner, seminal figure of Estonian history between the World Wars (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)
- March 24
- 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)
[edit] 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
- 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
- June 26 – Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet politician (b. 1899)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
- 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 3 acquitted at the Nuremburg 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
- 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)
[edit] November–December - November 8
- November 9
- 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 31 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
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