About the day » Sunday March 8, 1953Calender converter

• Linda A Snyder, Philidelelphia Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Wilhelmina Jacunda Cornelia van den Berg, Noordwijkerhout († 2015)
• Maria Josephina Francisca Muller, Roermond († 1953)
• Jan"Leendert" Oostenbrugge († 2019)
• Hollis John Jr. Whisenant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK († 1986)
• Jeffrey Heilman, Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Elly Peeters, Chaam,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• NN Jalink, Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Rudy Veralleman, Roeselare († 2004)
• Lambertha Everts, Gieten († 2011)

• Antonius Maria Margaroli (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Louwet (62), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Akke Albada (48)
• Adriaan Erkelens (68), Alblasserdam
• Aleida (Leida) Tilleman (74), Duiven, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Dominica Klerk (85), Weurt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amarilla Lynch Horn [iRwPri] (86), Iowa
• Arie Anton Strijland (78), De Steeg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aukje Tjibbes de Boer (81), Opeinde
• Christina Timmermans (62), Rotterdam

• 1949 » Teofilo Cubillas, Peruvian footballer
• 1951 » Dianne Walker, American tap dancer
• 1951 » Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer and businessman
• 1952 » George Allen, American lawyer and politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
• 1953 » Jim Rice, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1954 » David Wilkie, Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer
• 1954 » Steve James, American documentary filmmaker
• 1956 » David Malpass, American economist and government official
• 1956 » Laurie Cunningham, English footballer († 1989)
• 1957 » Clive Burr, English rock drummer († 2013)

• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)

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.
• March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• 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.
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.

The temperature on March 8, 1953 was between -2.2 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.