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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1850 1851 1852 - 1853 - 1854 1855 1856
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1830s 1840s - 1850s ''' - 1860s 1870s 1880s
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| align="center" | - 19th Century ''' - 20th Century
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1853 was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
- January 28 - José Martí , Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895 )
- February 6 - Ignacij Klemenčič , Slovenian physicist (d. 1901 )
- March 14 - Ferdinand Hodler , Swiss painter (d. 1918 )
- March 30 - Vincent Van Gogh , Dutch painter (d. 1890 )
- May 28 - Carl Larsson , Swedish painter (d. 1919 )
- June 3 - William Flinders Petrie , English Egyptologist (d. 1942 )
- June 12 - Chester Adgate Congdon , Minnesota mining magnate (d. 1916 )
- July 5 - Cecil Rhodes , English businessman (d. 1902 )
- July 18 - Hendrik Lorentz , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928 )
- September 2 - Wilhelm Ostwald , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932 )
- September 16 - Albrecht Kossel , German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1927 )
- September 20 - Chulalongkorn , Rama V, king of Thailand (d. 1910 )
- September 21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926 )
Deaths
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