* 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

Laughton would later reprise the same role in 1953 in the film Young Bess, opposite Jean Simmons as his daughter, Elizabeth.

From the Young Bess trailer ( 1953 )

He played Herod Antipas in Salome ( 1953, with Rita Hayworth in the title role ) and repeated his role as Henry VIII in Young Bess ( 1953 ).

Among the many films she appeared in during this period were The Robe ( 1953 ), Young Bess ( 1953 ), Désirée ( 1954 ), The Egyptian ( 1954 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) – " in which she's delightfully proper ( and improper ) as the Salvation Army officer Sarah Brown " – The Big Country ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), ( directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), All the Way Home ( 1963 ) – a film of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending ( 1969 ), again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

Young Bess is a 1953 Technicolor biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about the early life of Elizabeth I, from her turbulent childhood to the eve of her accession to the throne of England.

Bess Truman ( née Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ) ( February 13, 1885October 18, 1982 ), was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953.

* Young Bess ( 1953 ), with Jean Simmons

* Young Bess ( 1953 )

* Young Bess ( 1953 )

* Young Bess ( 1953 ) ( MGM ) ... Court Recorder ( uncredited )

* Young Bess ( 1953 )

* Young Bess ( 1953 )

) Smallens also conducted the Porgy and Bess revivals on Broadway in 1942 and 1953, as well as the famous 1952 world tour of the work, which culminated in that 1953 Broadway production.

* Porgy and Bess ( 1953 ) ( The famous world tour production featuring Leontyne Price.

Leontyne Price, who had portrayed Bess in the 1952 European tour and the acclaimed 1953 Broadway revival, was invited to sing the role on film but responded, " No body, no voice.

He lived with his parents until he married, then in the Wallace House, in rented apartments and houses in Washington ( including 4701 Connecticut Avenue ), in Blair House ( the official state visitors residence ), and in the White House, but it was not until July 1953, following his term of office and the December 1952 death of Madge Gates Wallace, that Harry and Bess Truman purchased the home at 219 North Delaware Street.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong in 1953.

January 1972 was supposed to be the conclusion of the second of two 19-year " time cycles " which, according to the elder Armstrong, had begun in 1953 when The World Tomorrow began to be heard over Radio Luxembourg in Europe.

In 2009 Green Day refused to make an edited version of their album 21st Century Breakdown for Walmart, with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong claiming " You feel like you're in 1953 or something ", thus the album is not carried by Walmart stores.

Curtis Armstrong ( born November 27, 1953 ) is an American actor best known for his portrayal as Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, as Herbert Viola on Moonlighting, and as famed record producer Ahmet Ertegün in the film Ray.

* Curtis Armstrong ( born 1953 ), an American actor

Many artists have recorded the song since Williams released it, including Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Patsy Cline, Del Shannon, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Jon Foreman, Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, and LeAnn Rimes ; the biggest hit version of the song was done by Joni James, reaching # 2 on the Billboard pop chart in 1953 ; the Rat Pack actor Joey Bishop recorded an infamously bad version of it in the 1960s.

Richie Benaud said that Lindwall was " technically the best fast bowler " that he ever saw .< Ref name =" p211 "/> During the 1950s, Lindwall's action was copied by young children and a number of first-class Australian bowlers, including Ron Gaunt, John Power and Barry Fisher consciously copied his action .< Ref name =" az "/> Alan Davidson, who succeeded Lindwall as Australia's pace spearhead, labelled him as " the best fast bowler I ever saw ".< Ref name =" a159 "> Armstrong, p. 159 .</ ref > Lindwall's childhood hero Harold Larwood rated Dennis Lillee to be equal to Lindwall " but not ahead of him ".< Ref name =" a159 "/> Following Lindwall's tour of England in 1953, his English counterpart Alec Bedser said that Lindwall was " the best fast bowler I've seen, because of his variety and control ".