* 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

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 – Roberta Williams, American video game designer

Roberta Williams ( born February 16, 1953 ) is an American video game designer, writer and a co-founder of Sierra On-Line ( later known as Sierra Entertainment ), originally from Simi Valley, California.

In the early 1950s, Marge and Gower Champion made seven film musicals: Mr. Music ( 1950, with Bing Crosby ), the 1951 remake of Show Boat ( with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson ), 1952's Lovely to Look At ( a remake of Roberta, also with Keel and Grayson ), the autobiographical Everything I Have Is Yours ( 1952 ), Give a Girl a Break ( 1953, with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse ), Jupiter's Darling ( 1955, with Keel and Esther Williams ), and Three for the Show ( 1955, with Betty Grable and Jack Lemmon ).

Roberta Gregory ( born 1953 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.

* 1953 – Bramwell Tovey, English conductor and composer

Bramwell Tovey, OM ( born 11 July 1953 ) is an English-born Grammy Award winning conductor and composer.

* 1953 – Nigel Mansell, English race car driver

* 1891 – C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Bobby G, English singer ( Bucks Fizz )

* 1953 – Horace Panter, English bass player ( The Specials and General Public )

* 1873 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Graham Lewis, English musician ( Wire and Dome )

* 1953 – George Martin, English footballer

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

* John Ford ( cricketer ) ( born 1934 ), English right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Gloucestershire Second XI between 1953 and 1956

* 1982 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient ( b. 1953 )

* 1953 – John Moulder Brown, English actor

* 1953 – Paul Weiland, English director, writer, and producer

* 1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Ian Mosley, English drummer ( Marillion )

* 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress

* 1953 – John Denham, English politician

* 1953 – Brian Talbot, English footballer

* 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer

* 1953 – Tony Blair, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* 1953 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1982 )

* 1953 – Michael Portillo, English politician

* 1883 – Arnold Bax, English composer ( d. 1953 )