* 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

* 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician ( d. 1953 )

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

* 1953 – Richard Stallman, American free software activist and computer programmer

* December 3 – Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer ( d. 1953 )

U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her as the first female director of the U. S. Mint on May 3, 1933, where she served five full terms until her retirement in 1953, when Republicans under Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon regained the executive branch of government.

* Robinson, Richard, Plato's Earlier Dialectic, 2nd edition ( Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953 ).

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

* Free and Easy ( with Richard Murdoch ) ( BBC, 1953 )

* Richard Shore Smith ( c. 1878 – 1953 ), American football player and coach

* Richard Norton Smith ( born 1953 ), U. S. Presidential historian

Richard Armour's book It All Started With Columbus ( 1953, revised 1961 ) treats the history of the United States, from 1492 to the JFK presidency, in a manner that owes a great deal to Sellar and Yeatman (" Ferdinand and Isabella refused to believe the world was round, even when Columbus showed them an egg ").

Ballantine finally convinced Clarke to let them publish Childhood's End first, and on August 24, 1953, the novel was published with a cover designed by American science fiction illustrator Richard M. Powers.

* Richard R. Weber ( born 1953 ), mathematician

Richard Konetzke, 4 vols., Madrid, 1953.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The play had limited popularity in the early twentieth century, but John Gielgud exploded onto the world's theatrical consciousness, through his performance as Richard at the Old Vic Theatre in 1929, returning to the character in 1937 and 1953 in what ultimately was considered as the definitive performance of the role.

Another fictionalized version of Mary's marital adventures is portrayed in the 1953 Walt Disney film The Sword and the Rose starring Richard Todd and Glynis Johns.

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 ).

Despite its impressive run in publication, The Robe is more familiar today as a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( Richard Burton ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ.

* Richard Boone played a calm and stern, though, slightly guilt-ridden Pilate in The Robe ( 1953 ).

* Richard Barrett Lowe 29th Governor of American Samoa ( 1953 – 1956 ) and 8th Governor of Guam ( 1956 – 1959 )

( 1953 ), starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden.

* 1953: Luke Holtgeerts, Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Albert Losvar, Fred Allen, Henry Brown