* 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

Colm J. Meaney (; Irish: Colm Ó Maonaigh ; born 30 May 1953 ) is an Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O ' Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

* 1953 – Jim Allister, Irish politician

* 1953 – Tony Adams, Irish film producer ( d. 2005 )

* 1953 – Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor

The Irish government refused to attend royal functions as a result ; for example, Patrick Hillery declined on Government advice to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, to which he had been invited by Queen Elizabeth, just as Seán T. O ' Kelly had declined on government advice to attend the 1953 Coronation Garden Party at the British Embassy in Dublin.

* probable – T. F. O ' Rahilly, Irish academic ( d. 1953 )

* January 31 – February 1 – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1, 836 people in the southwestern Netherlands ( especially Zeeland ), 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry in the Irish Sea.

Early Mist secured O ' Brien's first victory in 1953 ; Royal Tan won in 1954, and Quare Times completed the Irish trainer's hat-trick in 1955.

( The Republic of Ireland was officially included in the British team of 1973, though Irish players had competed since 1953 and Northern Irish players since 1947.

Robert Emmet was honoured on two Postage stamps of Ireland | Irish postage stamps issued in 1953, commemorating the 150th anniversary of his death

), Speeches from the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism ( Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1953 ).

Pierce Brendan Brosnan ( born 16 May 1953 ) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist.

Bell ( born 1953 ), genealogist on Irish Scots surnames

* Harris Boyle ( c. 1953 – 1975 ), Northern Irish loyalist and Ulster Volunteer Force member

Mary Harney ( born 11 March 1953 ) is an Irish former politician.

Maud Gonne MacBride (, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953 ) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats.

Richard Bruton ( born 15 March 1953 ) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and has been a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin North – Central constituency since 1982.

He also achieved pension rights for Irish people who had emigrated from Ireland prior to 1953.

Noel Dempsey ( born 6 January 1953 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

* Thomas Brennan ( Fianna Fáil ) ( died 1953 ), Irish politician

On 31 January 1953 the lifeboat rescued 32 survivors in the Irish Sea from the stricken Larne – Stranraer car ferry, MV Princess Victoria.

David Ervine ( 21 July 1953 – 8 January 2007 ) was an Irish unionist politician from Northern Ireland and the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party ( PUP ).