* 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

The Adrian Allen Associates, Dekalb, Illinois, 1953.

* 1953 – Tim Allen, American comedian and actor

* 1953 – Anita L. Allen, American law professor

Paul Gardner Allen ( born January 21, 1953 ) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation along with Bill Gates, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

Paul Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents Kenneth Samuel Allen, an associate director of the University of Washington libraries, and Edna Faye ( née Gardner ) Allen, on January 21, 1953.

* 1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer-songwriter and producer

Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953 .< ref > Church Committee ; p. 390 " MKUltra was approved by the DCI < nowiki > of Central Intelligence on April 13, 1953 "</ ref > Its remit was to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind control techniques on U. S. prisoners of war in Korea.

Paul Anthony Allen ( 1953 – 2007 ), a member of a re-enactment society, died a week later in hospital.

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

One of his first major policy shifts towards a more aggressive posture against communism, Dulles directed the CIA at this point now under the directorship of his brother Allen Dulles, in March 1953, to draft plans to overthrow the Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran.

) In March 1953, " The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show " joined I Love Lucy as part of the CBS Monday night prime-time line-up.

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

Parry died in 1918 and was succeeded as director by Sir Hugh Allen ( 1919 – 37 ), Sir George Dyson ( 1938 – 52 ), Sir Ernest Bullock ( 1953 – 59 ), Sir Keith Falkner ( 1960 – 74 ), Sir David Willcocks ( 1974 – 84 ), Michael Gough Mathews ( 1985 – 93 ), Dame Janet Ritterman ( 1993 – 2005 ) and Colin Lawson ( 2005 –).

Tim Allen ( born Timothy Alan Dick ; June 13, 1953 ) is an American comedian, actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer, known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement.

In 1953, President Eisenhower approved CIA Director Allen Dulles ' recommendation that General Truscott be appointed the CIA's Deputy Director for Coordination.

* The quotation in footnote 3 is from Irving Lowens and Allen P. Britton, " The Easy Instructor ( 1798 – 1831 ): A history and bibliography of the first shape note tune book ," Journal of Research in Music Education, I ( Spring 1953 ), 32.

In March 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles directed the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), which was headed by his younger brother Allen Dulles, to draft plans to overthrow Mosaddegh.

On 4 April 1953, Allen Dulles approved US $ 1 million to be used " in any way that would bring about the fall of Mosaddegh ".

* 1953 – Birmingham Army Hospital becomes Birmingham Jr. & Sr. High School, the third Jr. & Sr. High School in Van Nuys.

* Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. ( 1865 – 1953 ), was born to Sally Dunning, a free woman of color, and reared here.

Owned and operated by William Woodward, Sr. ( 1876 – 1953 ), it closed in 1957 following the death of his son, Billy Woodward.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley's School of Business Administration ( since named in honor of Walter A. Haas, Sr .) in 1953 with a degree in Business Administration.

* James Earl Carter, Sr. ( 1894 – 1953 ), father of former US president Jimmy Carter

* T. R. Peters, Sr. ( 1953 ), author / poet, speech writer, first Hillsdale alumnus to be honored as a distinguished alumnus in the field of literature

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 ).

Francis Adams Cherry, Sr. ( September 5, 1908 – July 15, 1965 ), was the 35th governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas, elected as a Democrat for a single two-year term from 1953 to 1955.

Robert Marion " Young Bob " La Follette, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – February 24, 1953 ) was an American senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and Fola La Follette, whose husband was the playwright George Middleton.

* Walter M. Jeffords, Sr .-( 1953 – 1960 )

NASCAR founder William France Sr. began planning for the track in 1953 as a way to promote the series, which at the time was racing on the Daytona Beach Road Course.

William B. Ziff, Sr., died in 1953 and son William B. Ziff, Jr. returned from Germany to assume his role in the company.

Nevertheless, Jones seems to have directed the school more autocratically after 1953, when the assistant of Bob Jones, Sr., Theodore Mercer, was fired, apparently for trying to lead a faculty rebellion against the Joneses.

* William Woodward, Sr. ( 1876 – 1953 ), American banker and horse breeder

ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International Speedway and in 1999 they merged with Penske Motorsports to become one of the largest motorsports companies in North America.

However, he left NASCAR in 1953 following a dispute with NASCAR founder William France Sr. and went to the AAA and USAC.

In 1953 he founded a company called Electro-Dynamics, then acquired the vacuum tube manufacturing business of Charles Litton, Sr. in 1953.

Jacques Villeneuve Sr. also known as Jacquo or Uncle Jacques ( in French L ' oncle Jacques ) ( born November 4, 1953 ) is a Canadian racer.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1953 to Benjamin Henry Kaestner, Sr. and Alice ( Reed ) Kaestner, he is the middle child of 10 siblings and step-siblings.

William Woodward, Sr. ( April 7, 1876 – September 25, 1953 ) was an American banker and major owner and breeder in thoroughbred horse racing.

Hall of Fame trainer John M. Gaver, Sr., who won the Belmont Stakes for the stable three times, trained Devil Diver, Champion Handicap Horse in 1943 – 1944 and the 1953 Horse of the Year Tom Fool.