* 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

* 1953 – Nigel Planer, British actor

In the summer of 1953, BBC staff writer Nigel Kneale created The Quatermass Experiment, the first of several Quatermass serials.

Nigel Kneale conceived the character of Quatermass in 1953, when he was assigned in his capacity as a BBC television staff drama writer to create a new six-part serial to run on Saturday nights in July and August.

Nigel Kneale explained in a 1990s interview the background that had led him to formulate Quatermass and the other characters of the original serial in 1953.

In 1953, Vorster was elected to the House of Assembly representing the seat of Nigel in the Transvaal.

* Nigel Rees ( footballer ) ( born 1953 ), Welsh footballer

William Nigel Ernle Bruce ( 4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953 ), best known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor on stage and screen.

Professor Bernard Quatermass was first introduced to audiences in two BBC television serials, The Quatermass Experiment ( 1953 ) and Quatermass II ( 1955 ), written by Nigel Kneale.

Professor Bernard Quatermass was created by Manx writer Nigel Kneale in 1953 for the serial The Quatermass Experiment.

His television career began during the 1950s, when he was cast in small roles in three Nigel Kneale / Rudolph Cartier productions for BBC Television: as a drunk in The Quatermass Experiment ( 1953 ), as both an old man in a pub and later a prisoner in Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1954 ) and as a tramp in Quatermass II ( 1955 ).

On television, Mitchell was voted Television Actress of the Year for 1953 by the Daily Mail newspaper, mainly for her role as Cathy in the Nigel Kneale / Rudolph Cartier adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights.

* Nigel Bruce ( 1895 – 1953 ), actor, played Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone

Sir Nigel Gresley has had twelve boilers in her career: 8961 ( from new ); 8946 ( from 4483 Kingfisher ), 21 February 1942 ; 9489 ( new boiler ), 6 March 1947 ; 29271 ( from 60024 Kingfisher ), 27 September 1950 ; 29319 ( new build ), 17 April 1952 ; 29306 ( spare ), 19 October 1953 ; 29321 ( from 60010 Dominion of Canada ), 12 March 1955 ; 29314 ( from 60026 Miles Beevor ), 13 April 1957 ; 29324 ( from 60015 Quicksilver ), 13 December 1957 ; 29331 ( new build ), 16 April 1959 ; 27970 ( new build ), 7 October 1960 and finally 27966 ( from 60016 Silver King ), 25 October 1962.

Dominion of Canada had eleven boilers throughout her career: 8952 ( from new ); 8908 ( from 2510 Quicksilver ), February 21, 1942 ; 9126 ( from 4482 Golden Eagle ), May 10, 1946 ; 9018 ( from 19 Bittern ), April 8, 1949 ; 29273 ( from 60014 Silver Link ), September 29, 1950 ; 29321 ( New build ), August 27, 1953 ; 29323 ( from 60014 Silver Link ), February 17, 1955 ; 29312 ( from 60018 Sparrow Hawk ), June 1, 1956 ; 29272 ( from 60002 Sir Murrough Wilson ), December 27, 1957 ; 29307 ( from 60028 Walter K. Whigham ), July 10, 1959 ; and finally 27970 ( from 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley ), December 5, 1962.

* 1891 – C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Bobby G, English singer ( Bucks Fizz )

* 1953 – Horace Panter, English bass player ( The Specials and General Public )

* 1873 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Graham Lewis, English musician ( Wire and Dome )

* 1953 – George Martin, English footballer

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.

* John Ford ( cricketer ) ( born 1934 ), English right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Gloucestershire Second XI between 1953 and 1956

* 1982 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient ( b. 1953 )

* 1953 – John Moulder Brown, English actor

* 1953 – Bramwell Tovey, English conductor and composer

* 1953 – Paul Weiland, English director, writer, and producer

* 1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Ian Mosley, English drummer ( Marillion )

* 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress

* 1953 – John Denham, English politician

* 1953 – Brian Talbot, English footballer

* 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer

* 1953 – Tony Blair, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* 1953 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1982 )

* 1953 – Michael Portillo, English politician

* 1883 – Arnold Bax, English composer ( d. 1953 )