About the day » Wednesday October 7, 1953Calender converter

• Robert Peeters, Genk,, Limburg, België († 2014)
• N van Riel, Tilburg († 1953)
• Mathieu VANDERSMISSEN, Hasselt (B) († 2017)
• Jannie Rijk, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 2009)
• Anna Maria Mechela Schoffelen, Klimmen, Limburg, Nederland
• Marianne Petronella Geertje Van de Vlekkert, Epe († 2005)
• Johanna Jacoba ( Hanny ) de Graaf, Heerde († 2004)
• Lucia Maria Oosten, Boxmeer († 2003)
• Rhonda A Hunter, Middletown, Orange County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Patrick Georges Cornelius Cottenier, Kortrijk, Provincie West-Vlaanderen, België († 1961)

• Alida Willenborg (70), Laren
• Bernardus Alexander Damhuis (53), Losser, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Charles Francois Robert (73)
• Antonie Remeijsen (91), Alphen en Riel, Nederland
• Antonie Remeijsen (91), Alphen en Riel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Henriette Allegonda Maria Langeraap (73), De Bilt, Nederland
• Albertha Harwig (65), Neede, Gelderland, Nederland
• "Mathieu" Pierre Marie de Lesseps (82), Paris
• Charles Francois Robert (73), Amsterdam
• Berendina Pothof (76), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1951 » Enki Bilal, French comic book creator, comics artist and film director
• 1951 » John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1952 » Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
• 1952 » Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player († 2002)
• 1952 » Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
• 1953 » Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright († 2014)
• 1953 » Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
• 1953 » Tico Torres, American drummer
• 1955 » Bill Henson, Australian photographer
• 1955 » Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author

• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

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 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
• February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
• August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
• October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
• December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

The temperature on October 7, 1953 was between 9.0 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.