About the day » Thursday March 12, 1953Calender converter

• Akky de Vries, Hoornsterzwaag (F)
• (Stillborn) VAATSTRA, Broek (Eenrum) Groningen Netherlands († 1953)
• Marretje KRAMER, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 2018)
• Marretje Kramer, Urk († 2018)
• Marianne de Graaf, Callantsoog († 2014)
• Melle Smeding, Ried, Friesland, Nederland († 2005)
• Vaatstra, Broek, Skarsterlân, Friesland, Nederland († 1953)
• Tonia Rorije, Deventer
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Maria Vermaseren, Breda († 1953)
• Levenloos geboren kind Schutijser, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1953)

• (Stillborn) VAATSTRA (0), Broek (Eenrum) Groningen Netherlands
• Bartel Vollaard (78), Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Cecile Burgemeestre (58), Den Bosch
• Adriana van Loon (88), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Dijkshoorn (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Peters Rit (72), Mierlo
• Alida Margaretha van der Goot (82), Bussum
• Aagje DOES (75), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Telleman (61), Alkmaar
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Bergman (45), Rotterdam

• 1950 » Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1952 » André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
• 1952 » John Mitchell, English footballer, forward
• 1952 » Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
• 1953 » Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
• 1954 » Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
• 1956 » Lesley Manville, English actress
• 1956 » Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1956 » Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper († 2010)
• 1956 » Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter

• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)

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.
• February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
• August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
• 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.
• December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
• December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

The temperature on March 12, 1953 was between -0.7 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.