* 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

* 19 May 1953: the 25th “ Bal des Petits Lits Blancs “, organised by the novelist Guy des Cars, takes place at the Moulin Rouge in the presence of the French President, Monsieur Vincent Auriol, and it includes, for the first time on a European stage, Bing Crosby.

Guy Verhofstadt (; born Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt ; April 11, 1953 ) is a Belgian politician, who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008.

* former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was born and raised in Dendermonde ( b. 1953 ), as was his younger brother the political scientist Dirk Verhofstadt ( b. 1955 ).

Philby was eased out of office and quietly retired in 1953 after the defection of his friends and fellow members of the " Cambridge spy ring " Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess.

During her tenure at Columbia through 1953, Vaughan was steered almost exclusively to commercial pop ballads, a number of which had chart success: " That Lucky Old Sun ", " Make Believe ( You Are Glad When You're Sorry )", " I'm Crazy to Love You ", " Our Very Own ", " I Love the Guy ", " Thinking of You " ( with pianist Bud Powell ), " I Cried for You ", " These Things I Offer You ", " Vanity ", " I Ran All the Way Home ", " Saint or Sinner ", " My Tormented Heart ", and " Time ", among others.

He first taught literature at the lycée Henri IV in Paris until hired in 1953 by Guy de Rothschild to work at Rothschild.

* Admiral Sir Guy Russell, 1953 – 1955

Guy Montag is the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's dystopian 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451.

* 11 February 1953 – Guy Petit succeeds Ribeyre as Minister of Commerce.

In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), a character named Faber constructs a hidden radio earpiece that he uses to guide the thoughts and actions of the book's protagonist, Guy Montag.

In 1950-52 Hill was president of the Royal Statistical Society and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1953.

In 1953 Guy was awarded the Légion d ' honneur, the highest non military award France offers.

* The Intruder ( 1953 film ), a film by Guy Hamilton

Guy Bono ( born 30 April 1953 in Béja, Béja Governorate, Tunisia ) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France.

She made her motion picture debut in Two Gals and a Guy ( 1951 ) and appeared in the television series Mama from 1953 to 1956.

She was married to singer Guy Mitchell in October 1953.

The best-known recording of the song was made by Guy Mitchell in 1952 and was a # 1 single in the UK Singles Chart in 1953.

His first three novels were filmed: The Servant by Joseph Losey in 1963, Line on Ginger by Guy Hamilton in 1953, and The Rough and the Smooth by Robert Siodmak in 1959.

The previous exposed radiator range still attracted profitable custom and unlike Daimler ( which built its last exposed-radiator CVG6 in 1953 ), Guy ( last exposed-radiator Arab IV in 1959 ) and AEC ( last exposed-radiator Regent V in 1960 ), Leyland continued to offer this option until the end of UK Titan production.

* Lady Jane Meriel Grosvenor ( b. 8 February 1953 ), married Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe and had issue.

1953 Guy GS bus built for London Transport