About the day » Sunday January 4, 1953Calender converter

• Geertje Heijstek, Altena, Werkendam, NB, Nederland († 1953)
• GUIDO ISIDOOR VAN BRANDE, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 2002)
• Steven Cyril Rupert TAYLOR, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2014)
• Cornelia Hendrika Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Rob Fick, Oosterhout († 1991)
• Geertje Mulder, Hardenberg († 1953)
• Hendrik Alexander de Beurs
• murielle marcelle alberte MICHEL, Couvin (Belgium) († 1985)
• Jenneke Harms, Velsen († 2012)
• Linda Diane McGee († 2016)

• Anna Heeren (0), Leeuwarden,Frl
• Francisca Theodora van Willigen (69), Nijmegen
• Anko Blaauw (84), Emmen,Gemeente Emmen,Drente
• Florencio Alaniz Villarreal 1903-1953 (49), Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States
• Douwina van Kampen (89), Termunten, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Langhout (50), Hoofddorp,Gemeente Haarlemmermeer,North Holland,Nederland
• (Stillborn) FORSTEN (0), Wildervank (Veendam) Groningen Netherlands
• Cornelis Smit (80), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Geessien Heddema (79), Groningen
• Aarta Everdina Veenendaal (76), Wassenaar, Nederland

• 1948 » Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Malian civil servant and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1948 » Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer († 1992)
• 1950 » Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic († 2013)
• 1953 » Norberto Alonso, Argentinian footballer
• 1954 » Tina Knowles, American fashion designer, founded House of Deréon
• 1956 » Ann Magnuson, American actress and performance artist
• 1956 » Bernard Sumner, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1956 » Zehava Gal-On, Israeli politician
• 1957 » Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Matt Frewer, American-Canadian actor

• 1940 » Flora Finch, English-American actress and producer (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)
• 1944 » Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Donald Campbell, English racing driver and world speed record holder (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Paul Chambers, American bassist and composer (b. 1935)

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.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
• September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
• October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
• 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.

The average temperature on January 4, 1953 was -0.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.