* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

77, No. 3 ( Sep., 1953 ), pp. 148 – 155.

* 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Christopher Franke, German musician and composer ( Tangerine Dream )

* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.

* 1953 – Merrill Osmond, American actor and singer ( The Osmonds )

* 1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Rush and Big Dirty Band )

* 1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright

* 1953 – Pope Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.

* 1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer

* 1953 – Kay Stenshjemmet, Norwegian speed skater

* 1953 – Roberta Tovey, English actress and singer

The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

* 1953 – Marjo, Canadian singer-songwriter ( Corbeau )

* 1953 – Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist ( Runrig )

* 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist

* 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist

* 1953 – Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician ( Keats )

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, English Politician

* 1953 Succeeds Alexander Lindsay as Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire ( now Keele University ).

In Britain, Scottish-born Val McDermid created lesbian journalist-cum-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, and Joan Smith ( born 1953 ) has gained popularity as the author of a series of Loretta Lawson novels.

A marriage to John C. Lindsay ended in divorce in 1953.

However it was probably not until the early 1930s, with the formation of groups such as the National Parks Association, and the appearance of a new breed of outdoor adventurers such as Bert Salmon ( 1899 – 1982 ), who made the first recorded ascent of Leaning Peak in 1932, Cliff Wilson ( who was probably the first European to climb all of the Mount Barney peaks and lesser pinnacles ) and Arthur Groom ( 1904 – 1953 ), and also botanists such as Cyril White ( 1890 – 1950 ) and Lindsay Smith ( 1917 – 1970 ), that bushwalkers began visiting the peak in numbers, and even then, much of Mount Barney remained unexplored until the late 1940s and early 1950s, when groups such as the University of Queensland Bushwalking Club, and the Brisbane Bushwalkers began making regular bushwalking and camping trips to the peak.

* Rumanian Summer: A View of the Rumanian People's Republic ( 1953 ) with Jack Lindsay

Lindsay G. King — the first resident United Church of Canada, minister ( 1953 – 1954 )— remembers that the name commonly used was Happy Valley.

During the testimonial match for Lindsay Hassett at the end of the 1953 – 54 season, Craig struck four sixes in five balls from the off spin of Johnson.

* Lloyd Austin ( born 1953 ), American general

* 1953 – Don Most, American actor

* 1953 – J. Neil Schulman, American writer

* 1881 – Francis Ford, American actor ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – James Horner, American composer

* 1953 – Cliff Johnson, American game designer

* 1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress

In 1953 the Curb Exchange was renamed the American Stock Exchange.

* 1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant

* 1953 – Lynwood Slim, American singer and harmonica player

* 1953 – Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director

* 1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Debralee Scott, American actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

* 1953 – Ron George, American politician

* 1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player

* 1953 – Hulk Hogan, American wrestler and actor

* 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American drummer and educator ( Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam )

* 1953 – Ruby Wax, American comedian