* 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 – 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 – Robert Parish, American basketball player

* 1953 – Robert Stangland, American athlete ( b. 1881 )

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

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 – Robert Davi, American actor

* 1953 – Robert Phillips, American guitarist

* 1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi ( d. 1984 )

* 1868 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Robert Beltran, American actor

* 1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor

In the Forties he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled E poi venne il diluvio and another one titled La piccola fiammiferaia ( 1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl ), distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's Attack!

Pariser is best known for his work with Robert G. Parr on the method of molecular orbital computation now known ( because it was independently developed by John A. Pople ) as the Pariser – Parr – Pople method ( PPP method ), published both by Pariser and Parr and by Pople in almost simultaneous papers in 1953.

* Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue, a 1953 Disney movie about Robert Roy MacGregor

* 1889 – Robert Taft, American politician ( d. 1953 )

* If This Goes On —/ Revolt in 2100 by Robert Heinlein ( 1940, revised and expanded 1953 )

The books were adapted into an American television series, Topper, beginning in 1953, with Leo G. Carroll as Cosmo Topper, and Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys as the ghosts.

* May 15 – Robert R., American HIV / AIDS victim ( b. 1953 )

* September 8 – Robert Taft, U. S. Senator from Ohio ( d. 1953 )

* March 22 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1953 )

* " The Seventh Victim " ( 1953 ) was a short story by science fiction author Robert Sheckley that depicted a futuristic game in which one player gets to hunt down another player and kill him.

Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.

Robert A. Millikan ( March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953 ) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Impellitteri ran for reelection in 1953, but was defeated by then Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who appointed him a criminal court judge in 1954.

* 1953 Robert Wilson observes Delbruck scattering of 1. 33 MeV gamma-rays by the electric fields of lead nuclei