The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist ( d. 1853 )

In 1853, he married Jane Sym ( 1825 – 1893 ).

* 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.

For a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

* 1853 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general ( d. 1926 )

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

* 1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and architect ( d. 1939 )

* 1777 – Hyacinth, Chuvash founder of Sinology ( d. 1853 )

* John Cramp, 1851 – 1853 ( and 1856 – 1869 )

* Edmund Crawley, 1853 – 1856

* 1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, ( d. 1884 )

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

** Maria II ( 1826 – 1853 )

Christian Andreas Doppler () ( 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853 ) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.

* Christian Doppler ( 1803 – 1853 ).

* 1853 – Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian ( d. 1931 )

* 1853 – René Bazin, French novelist ( d. 1932 )

* 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

* 1853 – André Messager, French composer ( d. 1929 )

* June 6-Ciprian Porumbescu, composer ( b. 1853 )

The first known photojournalist was Carol Szathmari ( Romanian painter, lithographer, and photographer ) who did pictures in the Crimean War ( between Russia and Ottoman Empire, 1853 to 1856 ).

He toured the Moldavian countryside, collecting, reworking, and arranging a vast array of Romanian folklore, which he published in two installments, in 1852 and 1853.

Anghel Saligny's brother Alfons Oscar Saligny ( 1853 – 1903 ) was a chemist and educator who was also elected a member of the Romanian Academy.

* 1786 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer ( d. 1853 )

* 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer, and conductor ( b. 1853 )

Matteo Carcassi ( 1792 – 16 January 1853 ) was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

* date unknown – Matteo Carcassi, Italian musician and composer ( d. 1853 )

* André Messager ( 1853 – 1929 ), composer and conductor

* George Onslow ( 27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853 ) composer

* May 23-Hans von Koessler, composer ( b. 1853 )

* March 1-Emil Sjögren, composer ( b. 1853 )

* January 9-Edwin Arthur Jones, composer ( b. 1853 )

* August 24-Alfred Dudley Turner, composer ( some sources have b. 1853 ) ( d. 1888 )

* date unknown – Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer ( died 1853 )

* March 19 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer ( d. 1853 )

A fire in 1853 caused extensive damage ; reconstruction was carried out by Alberto Cavos, son of Catterino Cavos, an opera composer.

* George Onslow ( 1784 – 1853 ), composer

* Alfonso Rendano ( pianist and composer, 1853 – 1931 )

* In 1853 and 1854, the famous and very eccentric French conductor and composer of light music Louis-Antoine Jullien ( 1812-1860 ) gave dozens of very successful concerts mixing classical and light music.

André George Louis Onslow ( 27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853 ) was an Anglo-French composer.

André Charles Prosper Messager ( 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929 ) was a French composer, organist, pianist, conductor and administrator.

* Friedrich Schneider ( 1786 – 1853 ), German composer and conductor

Johann Peter Heuschkel ( 4 January 1773, Harras near Eisfeld – 5 December 1853, Biebrich ), was a German oboist, organist, music teacher and composer.

Written after the success of Attila in 1846 by which time the composer had become well established, it was before the great successes of 1850 to 1853, Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata which propelled him into universal fame.