* 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, 15 July: John Reginald Halliday Christie at Pentonville for the murder of his wife Ethel.

* Andrew William Reginald Morrison, 3rd Viscount Dunrossil ( b. 1953 )

Reginald C. Fuller, Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers, 1953, 1975, § 504j.

Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower, KCVO, KPM, OStJ ( March 1892 – 3 October 1972 ) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1953 to 1958.

Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes ( 1884 – 1953 ).

General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCVO, GBE, KCMG, DSO, TD ( 25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953 ), usually known as Sir Reginald Wingate, was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan.

Brabourne married Penelope Meredith Eastwood ( born 16 April 1953 ), a daughter of Reginald Wray Frank Eastwood, a self-made millionaire who began working life as a butcher at 15 and founded the Angus Steakhouse chain, and wife Marian Elizabeth Hood, on 20 October 1979 at Romsey Abbey, Romsey, in Hampshire, where his parents were married in 1946.

Screenshot of actor Reginald Tate as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1953 BBC Television serial The Quatermass Experiment.

John Reginald Halliday Christie ( 8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953 ), born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was a notorious English serial killer active in the 1940s and early 1950s.

He nonetheless remained active in the Progressive Conservative Party, and nominated Reginald Lissaman as the party's candidate for Brandon City in the 1953 provincial election.

In the 1953 election, he place second out of four candidates on the first count with 3, 078 votes ( 35. 62 %), and lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate Reginald Wightman on the second count.

* Dinner for the General, a 1953 teleplay by Reginald Lawrence for Hallmark Hall of Fame, Season 2, Episode 2-26, Aired on NBC-February 22, 1953.

* Inferno ( 1953 film ), a film noir by Roy Ward Baker

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

Between 1899 and 1953, Aylesbury had railway links to four London termini: Marylebone, Baker Street, Paddington, Euston.

Bush Sr. then encouraged Baker to become active in politics, to help deal with the grief of his wife's death ( something that Bush Sr., himself, had done when his daughter, Pauline Robinson ( 1949 – 1953 ), died of leukemia ).

* Jimmie Baker ( basketball ) ( born 1953 ), American basketball player

* 1953: Konitz Meets Mulligan ( with Chet Baker

He starred in television series, such as the CBS Cold War espionage program from 1952 – 1953, Biff Baker, U. S. A., with co-star Randy Stuart, as his wife, Louise Baker.

* Michael A. Baker ( born 1953 ), NASA astronaut

Michael Allen Baker ( born October 27, 1953 ) is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, NASA astronaut, and the International Space Station Program Manager for International and Crew Operations, at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Baker Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 1953.

* The Cruel Sea ( 1953 ), directed by Charles Frend, starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, John Stratton, Virginia McKenna.

A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, he wrote jazz compositions like " Not Really the Blues " for Woody Herman in 1949, " Hershey Bar " ( 1950 ) and " Pot Luck " ( 1953 ) for Stan Getz, " Straight Life " ( 1953 ) and " Low Life " ( 1956 ) for Count Basie as well as " Tommyhawk " ( 1954 ) for Chet Baker.

* 1953: Konitz Meets Mulligan ( With Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker ) ( Pacific )

He alternated between stage musicals and both comic and dramatic plays, including his role as Bob Baker in the original production of Wonderful Town ( 1953 ), Jupiter in the Cole Porter musical Out of This World, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and as Henry Higgins in the 1964 US tour of My Fair Lady.

In addition, Revue also made Alan Hale, Jr .' s Biff Baker, U. S. A. ( 1952 – 1953 ) and all three of Rod Cameron's syndicated series, City Detective ( 1953 – 1955 ), State Trooper ( 1956 – 1959 ), and COronado 9 ( 1960 – 1961 ) and the Bill Williams western series, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( 1951 – 1955 ).

In 1953, as a Kansas State University student, Baker won the NCAA championship in the, and in 1956 he won the AAU championships in 200 m. Baker also won numerous conference titles at Kansas State, and was a four-time All American.

The success of this really established Baker in films, and led to a Hollywood offer when George Sanders fell ill and was unable to play Sir Mordred in the expensive epic Knights of the Round Table ( 1953 ).

Inferno is a 1953 American film noir drama / thriller directed by Roy Ward Baker, shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D Dimension and stereophonic sound on prints for the few theaters equipped for that sound system in 1953.

Janet Fielding ( born Janet Mahoney, 9 September 1953 ) is an Australian actress, known for her role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Tegan Jovanka, a companion of the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison.