* 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 – 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

Apologie pour l ' histoire ou Métier d ' historien ( 1949 ), translated as The Historian's Craft ( 1953 ) excerpt of 1992 introduction by Peter Burke, and text search

* 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer and politician ( Midnight Oil )

Disney continued making animated films, notably ; Cinderella ( 1950 ), Peter Pan ( 1953 ), Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

* 1953 – Peter Brown, American singer-songwriter and producer

Apologie pour l ' histoire ou Métier d ' historien ( 1949 ), translated as The Historian's Craft ( 1953 ) excerpt of 1992 introduction by Peter Burke, and text search ; Original French text

* Gradenwitz, Peter ( 1953 ).

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

* 1953 – Peter Firth, British actor

Nominalism has been endorsed or defended by many, including William of Ockham, Peter Abelard, D. C. Williams ( 1953 ), David Lewis ( 1983 ), and arguably H. H. Price ( 1953 ) and W. V. O. Quine ( 1961 ).

Peter James Carroll ( born 8 January 1953, in Patching, England ) is a modern occultist, author, cofounder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, and practitioner of chaos magic theory.

In January 1953, Leigh travelled to Ceylon to film Elephant Walk with Peter Finch.

His plays were produced in New York by Herbert Machiz, who was involved from 1953 until 1969 with the art work dealer John Bernard Myers to engage, at that time, little-known young artists to design the stage sets, e. g. Paul Georges, Neil Peter Jampolis and others.

Notable former managers of the club include Brian Clough, Peter Taylor ( born 1928 ), Peter Taylor ( born 1953 ), Jimmy Melia, Liam Brady, Jimmy Case, Steve Gritt, Brian Horton, Steve Coppell and Mark McGhee.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

During the 1950 ′ s, Pinewood gave birth to the huge financial successes of the Carry On ... and Doctor films series, produced on behalf of Rank by Peter Rogers and his wife Betty E. Box and directed by the brothers Gerald Thomas and Ralph Thomas respectively ( Doctor in the House was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain ) and the Norman Wisdom comedies, which between 1953 and 1966 initially made more money than the James Bond film series.

In 1953, Peter Zamiatkin, who was reportedly a member of the guard of the Russian Imperial Family, told a 16-year-old fellow hospital patient that he had taken Anastasia and Alexei to his birth village near Odessa at the request of the Tsar.

In the same year she played Polly Peachum to Laurence Olivier's Macheath in Peter Brook's film version of The Beggar's Opera ( 1953 ).

Back in France he directed and collaborated on the adaptation of Schnitzler's La Ronde ( 1950 ), which won the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Lola Montès ( 1955 ) starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov, as well as Le Plaisir and The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which capped his career.

* 1953 Peter Boorman

Peter and his parents first settled in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1953 where he attended Lafayette High School ( New York City ).

However in 1953 he released Peter Pan which like Alice in Wonderland had been in production since the late-1930s, early-1940s and was shelved during the war.