* 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

Meanwhile, in a November 15, 1953 game against the 49ers, Otto Graham took an elbow from linebacker Art Michalik that put a gash on his face requiring 15 stitches.

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

* 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer

* 1953 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

In 1953 Shirley Graham built on the work of Quaife and Jeremie in a " biography " of Point du Sable that she described as " not accurate history nor pure fiction ", but rather " an imaginative interpretation of all the known facts ".

In 1953, the comic book artist Graham Ingels ( signing his name " Ghastly ") used stills from Barrymore's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

* Rose Pemberton in The Living Room ( Graham Greene ), Wyndham's Theatre, April 1953

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

Another notable film was The Heart of the Matter ( 1953 ), from another Graham Greene story.

Graham William Allen ( born 11 January 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Nottingham North since 1987.

Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL ( born 23 July 1953 ) is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England.

Graham announced in 1953 that the following season would be his last.

* Mable Monohan ( 1888 – 1953 ), murder victim ; her death sent Barbara Graham, Emmet Perkins and Jack Santo to the gas chamber

In 1953, she married a bartender, Henry Graham, with whom she had a third child, named Tommy.

William Louis Petersen ( born February 21, 1953 ) is an American actor and producer, best known for playing Dr. Gilbert " Gil " Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Richard Chance in the film To Live and Die in L. A., and as Will Graham in the film Manhunter.

* " I Believe " ( 1953 song ), written by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman ; popularized by Frankie Laine

By 1953 John Heath-Stubbs could write of the New Romantics as a movement of the past, though acutely singling out W. S. Graham under the heading of in it, though not of it.

* Rex Holliss: Killer on the Coast: The Story of Stan Graham: Wellington: Denis Glover: 1953, 1959.

* Leslie Graham ( 1911 – 1953 ), world champion motorcycle racer

Many of the more obscure items such as the Graham Farish Coronation figures ( by Russell Gammage ) from 1953 are considered collectors items.

* James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose 24 June 1920 – 1953

In 2003, Graham Wallis organised a 50th Anniversary Rerun of the 1953 Redex Round Australia Trial in which eleven Peugeot 203s started and ten 203s finished.

Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek ( June 6, 1901 – July 20, 1953 ), an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number of hymns, such as " Lord of All Hopefulness ".