* 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

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

* 1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA ; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature ( pub.

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

Confirmation and clarity came a year later in 1953, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick correctly hypothesized, in their journal article " Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid ", the double helix structure of DNA, and suggested the copying mechanism by which DNA functions as hereditary material.

* 1879 – Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer

The Eagle in Cambridge is where Francis Crick interrupted patrons ' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had " discovered the secret of life " after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA.

The structure of DNA was determined in 1953 by James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, following by developing techniques which allow to read DNA sequences and culminating in starting the Human Genome Project ( not finished in the 20th century ) and cloning the first mammal in 1996.

* January 28 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet ( d. 1953 )

James Francis " Jim " Thorpe ( Sac and Fox ( Sauk ): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as " Bright Path "; May 28, 1888March 28, 1953 ) was an American athlete of mixed ancestry ( Native American and Caucasian ).

* 1953 — After examining Franklin's unpublished data, James D. Watson and Francis Crick published a double-helix structure for DNA, with one sugar-phosphate backbone running in the opposite direction to the other.

* Francis Picabia ( 1879 – 1953 ), painter

After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Francis Crick and James D. Watson, Gamow attempted to solve the problem of how the order of the four different kinds of bases ( adenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine ) in DNA chains could control the synthesis of proteins from amino acids.

In his 1953 book, The Oak Island Enigma: A History and Inquiry Into the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher Francis Bacon used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Shakespeare's plays.

The collection includes an original copy of the 1953 Nature paper where Nobel winners James D. Watson and Francis Crick first described the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Her data, according to Francis Crick, was " the data we actually used " to formulate Crick and Watson's 1953 hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA.

Francis Picabia (; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953 ) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.

Francis Picabia died in Paris in 1953 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre.

* Francis Cherry, governor of Arkansas from 1953 to 1955

* Joseph Francis Busch ( 1866 – 1953 ), Roman Catholic Bishop

The JCR is the wealthiest in Oxford due to the purchase and sale of a Francis Bacon ( artist ) painting in the early 20th century ; it was bought in 1953 for £ 150 and sold for £ 400, 000 in 1997.

DNA reconstruction model built by Francis Crick | Crick and James D. Watson | Watson in 1953.

Consubstantiation is generally rejected by Lutherans and is explicitly rejected by the LCMS as an attempt to define the holy mystery of Christ's presence .< ref > Francis Pieper, < cite > Christian Dogmatics </ cite > ( St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1953 ), 3: 326-27 and John Theodore Mueller, < cite > Christian Dogmatics </ cite > ( St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1934 ), 519-20, 528 .</ ref >

However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated " to provide support for the men and women of the armed forces with help of the American people " According to war historian Paul Edwards, Between 1952 and 1953, not a day went by without the USO providing services somewhere in Korea.