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| yp1=1950
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| yp3=1952
| year=1953
| ya1=1954
| ya2=1955
| ya3=1956
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1953 (''' MCMLIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
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June
July
August
September-October
November-December
Births
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 - 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-April
- 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 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld , American film producer and director
- April 2 - Jim Allister , Northern 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 20 - Sebastian Faulks , English novelist
May-July
- 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 24 - Alfred Molina , English actor
- 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 1 - David Berkowitz , American serial killer
- June 4 - Susumu Ojima , Japanese entrepreneur ( Huser )
- June 8 - Bonnie Tyler , Welsh singer
- June 13 - Tim Allen , American actor
- June 21 - Benazir Bhutto , Prime Minister Of Pakistan
- 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 , First Lady of Canada
- July 29 - Geddy Lee , Canadian musician ( Rush )
August-September
- August 5 - Rick Mahler , baseball player (d. 2005 )
- August 9 - Robert Cray , American musician
- August 11 - Hulk Hogan , American professional wrestler
- August 14 - Cliff Johnson , Puzzle Game Author
- August 18 - Louie Gohmert , American politician
- August 19 - Benoît Régent , French actor (d. 1994 )
- August 26 - Pat Sharkey , Northern Irish footballer
- August 31 - György Károly , Hungarian author
- September 1 - FX Feeney , American film producer and writer
- September 4 - Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs , American actor, '' Welcome Back Kotter ''
- 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 30 - Deborah Allen , American country music singer
October-November
- 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 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 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 )
- 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 - Queen Mary The Dowager Queen Mother , queen 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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