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1953-1962
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September-October
November-December
Births
- ? - Ikue Mori, drummer, composer, and graphic designer
January
- January 4 - George Tenet, American Central Intelligence Agency director
- January 6 - Malcolm Young, Australian musician
- January 8 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
- January 10 - Pat Benatar, American singer
- January 10 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
- January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor
- January 21 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
- January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
- January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
- January 29 - Teresa Teng, Asian superstar
February
- February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
- February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, American actress
- February 9 - Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor
- February 9 - Rick Wagoner, American Automotive executive
- February 11 - Philip Anglim, American actor
- February 11 - Jeb Bush, brother of President George W Bush and son of George H.W. Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush
- February 11 - Alan Rubin, American musician
- February 17 - Janice Dickinson, American supermodel
- February 17 - Norman Pace, British actor and comedian
- February 21 - William Petersen, American actor
- February 25 - José María Aznar, Spanish politician
- February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, German artist
- February 26 - Michael Bolton, American singer
March
- March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
- March 6 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- March 6 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
- March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, American author
- March 12 - Ron Jeremy, American actor
- March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- March 16 - Richard Stallman, American free software proponent
- March 17 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
- March 23 - Chaka Khan, American singer
- March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
- March 30 - Bernd Tausche, Born Sceptic, Germany
April
May
- May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- May 15 - George Brett, baseball player
- May 15 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
- May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- May 19 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
- May 20 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
- May 26 - Michael Portillo, English politician
- May 29 - Danny Elfman, American composer
- May 30 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
- May 31 - Kathie Sullivan, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
June-July
- June 1 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer
- June 4 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
- June 13 - Tim Allen, American actor
- June 21 - Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Daughter of the late Quaid-I-Awam Z.A. BHUTTO
- June 24 - Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
- 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 29 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush)
August
September
October
- October 2 - Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer
- October 7 - Christopher Norris, British critical theorist
- October 7 - Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)
- October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor
- October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
- October 12 - Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
- October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
- October 27 - Robert Picardo, American actor
- October 27 - Peter Firth, British actor
- October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor
November
- 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
- November 19 - Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
- November 23 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
- November 25 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
- November 28 - Ben Bolt, American guitarist
- November 29 - Alex Grey, American artist
December
Deaths
- 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)
- March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
- March 5 - 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)
- May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
- July 18 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
- July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
- July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
- 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 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
- October 3 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
- October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
- 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)
- November 29 - 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
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