About the day » Saturday November 7, 1953Calender converter

• Muiris Lynch († 1976)
• Douglas Linn Pruisner, Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1995)
• Marleentje Van Boxelaer, Sint-Niklaas,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1982)
• Petronella Cornelia Maria Smulders, amsterdam, Nederland († 2020)
• Gregory Bohannon († 1983)
• Fester Jan Broekhuizen, Roodeschool
• Dietmar Reis, Neukirch, Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany († 1961)
• Johanna Maria Wilhelmus Engelbrecht, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Herman Bernhard (Bennie) (2k) Wittendorp, Klazienaveen (Emmen) († 2006)
• Douglas Gene Keathley, Floyd, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2016)

• Agnes Margaretha Swart (73), Oosterwijtwerd
• Bernitta Branscum (72), Konawa, Seminole County, Oklahoma
• Annie Schimmel (76), Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
• Cornelis Monteban (59), Nieuwpoort, Molenlanden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Emily Mildred Katharine Husband (77), Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
• Daniel COKER (97), Gardner
• Dina Post (37), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Keller (72), Rotterdam
• Clasina Maria Brigitta Uitjens (55), Eindhoven
• Catharina Koersvelt (86), Badhoevendorp

• 1952 » David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1952 » Modibo Sidibé, Sudanese-Malian police officer and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1952 » Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and manager († 2016)
• 1953 » Christopher Foster, English bishop
• 1953 » Erik Balke, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 1953 » Lucinda Green, English equestrian and journalist
• 1953 » Maire Aunaste, Estonian journalist and author
• 1954 » Gil Junger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 » Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian lawyer and author
• 1954 » James Gray, Scottish politician

• 1941 » Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1944 » Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Richard Sorge, Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (b. 1895)
• 1947 » K. Natesa Iyer, Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1887)
• 1959 » Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 » Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1966 » Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 » John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1901)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Robert
8. Peter
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
12. Petronella
13. Geertruida
14. Linda
15. Alida
16. Jacoba

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
• April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• August 12 » The 7.2 M_s  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
• August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
• September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
• November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.

The temperature on November 7, 1953 was between 2.3 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.