About the day » Sunday December 6, 1953Calender converter

• Rogerio Longen, Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2005)
• Pamela Durbin († 2002)
• Nicolaas Gouwenberg († 2012)
• Okke Spahr van de Hoek, Drachten († 1985)
• peter nicolaas marie (peter) janssen, helden-dorp (keup)
• Hermanus Nicilaas Voorhorst, Heeten (Raalte) († 2013)
• Christophe Jean CAVROIS, Roubaix, 59512, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France († 2017)
• Engbert Linde
• Zoon († 1953)
• Johan Roelof Schonewille, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen († 2013)

• Dirk Schoute (81), Goes,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Andries Andries (Andrew) van der Wagen (85), Riverside, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Andries Serdijn (76), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Caroline Julia TWYMAN (81), Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
• Antje Homan (61), Pieterzijl, gem. Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Annetta Aukje Houwer (0), Steenwijk
• Abraham Ju (86), Rotterdam
• Alida Swart (61), Hardinxveld
• Chloe Spurgeon (71), Salem, Washington, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Barteldina Buurma (71), Apeldoorn

• 1952 » Chuck Baker, American baseball player
• 1952 » Joe Harris, American football player
• 1952 » Nicolas Bréhal, French author and critic († 1999)
• 1953 » Dwight Stones, American high jumper and sportscaster
• 1953 » Gary Goodman, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1953 » Gary Ward, American baseball player and coach
• 1953 » Geoff Hoon, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1953 » Masami Kurumada, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1953 » Sue Carroll, English journalist († 2011)
• 1953 » Tom Hulce, American actor

• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1956 » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)
• 1961 » Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
• 1972 » Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b. 1934)
• 1974 » Nikolay Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)
• 1976 » João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)

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 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
• August 19 » Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The temperature on December 6, 1953 was between 5.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.