About the day » Saturday April 11, 1953Calender converter

• NN Luyf, Hilversum († 1953)
• Trijntje de Vries, Hallum († 2021)
• Jeichina Koopman, Odoorn († 1956)
• Harriet Stella SANDERS, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2015)
• Jan Kuipers († 2005)
• Frederik Willem (Eric?) Suyderhoud, Bandoeng
• Leonce Budo, Gutschoven, België († 1985)
• Robert John Byther, Glendale CA, V.S († 1980)
• N.N. Poppe, Koewacht († 1953)
• Jentje Bakker, Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1954)

• Antje Kaptijn (79), Noordwijk
• Kleijn (21)
• Anthonius Johannes Hartwijk (60)
• Adrianus Martinus Boom (81), Udenhout
• Bernadus Johannes Meijerman (77), Halle-Nijman
• Afke Tolsma (38), ALKMAAR
• Bauke Jans de Vries (76), Stiens
• Afke Tolsma (38), Alkmaar, nh.nld
• Albert Gerhard te Voortwis (61), Winterswijk
• A(Aleida) Elferink (68), Langeveen (Tubbergen)

• 1952 » Indira Samarasekera, Sri Lankan engineer and academic
• 1952 » Nancy Honeytree, American singer and guitarist
• 1952 » Peter Windsor, English-Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1953 » Andrew Wiles, English mathematician and academic
• 1953 » Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1954 » Abdullah Atalar, Turkish engineer and academic
• 1954 » Aleksandr Averin, Azerbaijani cyclist and coach
• 1954 » David Perrett, Scottish psychologist and academic
• 1954 » Francis Lickerish, English guitarist and composer
• 1954 » Ian Redmond, English biologist and conservationist

• 1939 » Kurtdereli Mehmet, Turkish wrestler (b. 1864)
• 1953 » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Paul Specht, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and educator (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Rosa Grünberg, Swedish actress (b. 1878)
• 1962 » George Poage, American hurdler and educator (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Donald Sangster, Jamaican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Thomas Farrell, American general (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)

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.
• January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
• December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
• December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

The temperature on April 11, 1953 was between 0.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.