About the day » Sunday March 22, 1953Calender converter

• Benno Küster, Offenbach, Deutschland († 2020)
• Robert Charles Miedema, Chicago
• 2.1.10. Jacobus Hubertus (Koos) van Haaster, Delft († 1998)
• James Ross Thompson, New York City, New York County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Anneke Zonneveld, Alkmaar († 2013)
• Henricus Mensink, Zwolle († 1953)
• Marion van Toorenburg († 2010)
• J.H. Stegeman († 1978)
• Maria Wilhelmina Josefina Temmink († 1986)
• Hendrik van Geest († 2020)

• Adrianus Aloijsius Verrijt (89), Geldrop
• Berendina Klaasen van Smirren (58), Vollenhove
• Dingena Ringlever (90), Naaldwijk
• Bernardus Gerardus Voorbij (76), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Augusto Mathias Schütz (68), São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Aleida M. Wessels (52)
• Adrianus Aloysius Verrijt (89), Geldrop
• Albert Jasper Harrelson (69)
• Bartje Roelofsen (80), Leerdam, Nederland
• Anna Bol (78), ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1949 » Brian Hanrahan, English journalist († 2010)
• 1949 » Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1953 » Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster
• 1955 » Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1955 » Pete Sessions, American politician
• 1955 » Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
• 1956 » Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born María Teresa Mestre y Batista)
• 1957 » Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
• 1957 » Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer

• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1952 » D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 » José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 » John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
• 1971 » Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)

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. Margaretha
11. Yvonne
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 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
• November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

The temperature on March 22, 1953 was between 1.2 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.