About the day » Wednesday August 19, 1953Calender converter

• Robert Theodoor van der Mark, Noordwijkerhout († 2019)
• Ferdinand Groeneveld, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Catarina Lucia de Fatima Guzi, Siqueira Campos, Paraná, Brasil († 1992)
• Annemarie Elisabeth (Ansje) Niels, Millingen a/ Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Els de Dood († 1994)
• Wayne Steven Escobar, Riverside, California, Verenigde Staten († 1955)
• Henny (Hennie) van de Venis, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2017)
• Froukje Bouius († 2000)
• Caby Pellencau, Surabaja, Jawa Timur (Djawa Timur), Indonesië
• Rich Rodney NEERINGS, Salt Lake City, Utah († 1970)

• Bessie Dubin (61), Orange, California, Verenigde Staten
• Augustinus Antonius Nitert (63), Enschede
• Anje Grietje de Groot (35), West Branche, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Dymphna M Wierkx (82), Bergen op Zoom,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Batholomeus Vens (76), Valburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Vlies (77), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Aafje Huisman (75), Heemskerk
• Adhémar Gustave Frédéric Edouard Regout (34), Orebro (S)
• Carl Feigum (74), Starbuck, Pope, Minnesota, United States
• Ferdinand (Frank) S KULL (70), Grand Rapids, Kent, MI

• 1950 » Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
• 1951 » Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 » John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter
• 1952 » Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
• 1953 » Mary Matalin, American political consultant
• 1954 » Oscar Larrauri, Argentinian race car driver
• 1955 » Mary-Anne Fahey, Australian actress
• 1955 » Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1955 » Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominica-born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1955 » Peter Gallagher, American actor

• 1936 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1954 » Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
• 1957 » David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)

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.
• March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
• November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.
• December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

The temperature on August 19, 1953 was between 8.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.