About the day » Saturday March 7, 1953Calender converter

• Johannes Peterus Theodorus Maria van der Lans, Sassenheim († 2020)
• Karen Rose Godbey
• Simon Jozef Nannes, Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Joke Langeveld, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• ? Hoogesteger, St Maartensdijk († 1953)
• Gery Aker, Zwaagdijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Hendrikje De Vries, Uithuizermeeden,, Groningen, Nederland († 1956)
• Arie Jan de Ridder, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anko Anne Willem Achterhof, Utrecht († 1983)
• Johannes Hendrik  Huijsing, Amsterdam

• Alida Blommestein (79), Leiden
• Bertha Jansen (67), Nieuwleusen, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Piers Duizendstra (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonse Boudry Baudry (87), Marcq en Baroeul, 59700, France
• Aafje Hooreweg (85), ,, Delft, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hermans (78), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• ? Hoogesteger (0), St Maartensdijk
• Aaltje Tromp (85), Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrranus Josephus van der Vleuten (78), Liempde
• Antonius Adrianus Josephus Oomen (75), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1950 » Billy Joe DuPree, American football player
• 1950 » Franco Harris, American football player and businessman
• 1950 » J. R. Richard, American baseball player and minister
• 1952 » Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1952 » Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician
• 1952 » Viv Richards, Antiguan cricketer and footballer
• 1952 » William Boyd, Ghanaian-English author and screenwriter
• 1954 » Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop
• 1955 » Tommy Kramer, American football player
• 1956 » Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer

• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)
• 1949 » Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Alice B. Toklas, American writer (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)

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.
• February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
• February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• 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.
• 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.
• October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.

The temperature on March 7, 1953 was between 0.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.