* 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

The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

* 1953 – Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner

* Bobby Rahal ( born 1953 ), auto racing team owner and former driver.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

* Bobby Wallace ( 1953 )

His support players included Fatso Marco ( 1948 – 1952 ), Ruth Gilbert as " Max ", Milton's love-starved secretary ( 1952 – 1955 ), Bobby Sherwood ( 1952 – 1953 ), Arnold Stang ( 1953 – 1955 ), Jack Collins ( 1953 – 1955 ) and Milton Frome ( 1953 – 1955 ).

* Bobby Smith ( footballer born 1953 ) ( 1953 – 2010 ), football player for Hibernian and Leicester City

* It is now confirmed that the child actor Bobby Driscoll ( Peter Pan, 1953 ) is buried in Potter's Field on Hart Island in New York, being unidentified at the time of his burial.

The series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie Reynolds, Bob Fosse, and Bobby Van as Dobie Gillis.

He also won the 1953 New York State Championship ( the first win by a non-New Yorker ), the 1956 Eastern States Open directed by Norman Tweed Whitaker in Washington, D. C., ahead of William Lombardy, Nicolas Rossolimo, Bobby Fischer ( at age 13 ) and Arthur Feuerstein, and the 1957 Champion of Champions tournament .< ref name =" The chess games of Hans Berliner ">

The group came together as The Carnations in 1953, with members Earl Carroll ( lead vocalist ), Bobby Phillips, Lavern Drake ( bass vocalist ), and Gus Willingham.

In the 1950s, he began appearing in films and achieved success in So Big ( 1953 ), Johnny Tremain ( 1957 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), and West Side Story ( 1961 ) before sharing a 1962 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year-Actor with Bobby Darin and Warren Beatty.

In 1953, she starred on the West End in the musical Paint Your Wagon with her father, Bobby Howes.

* Paint Your Wagon ( Jennifer Rumson ) at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket – with father Bobby Howes-production ran for 477 performances over 18 months starting February 1953.

He was the victim of a kidnapping in September 1953 that led to the largest ransom payout in U. S. history at the time ; however, Bobby Greenlease's abductors had no intention of returning him to his family.

In September 1953, Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Emily Brown Heady kidnapped six-year-old Bobby Greenlease from Notre Dame de Sion, an exclusive Kansas City Catholic school.

* Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van in The Affairs of Dobie Gillis ( 1953 )

*" From This Moment On "-Tommy Rall, Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, Carol Haney, and Jeanne Coyne from Kiss Me, Kate ( 1953 )