About the day » Saturday April 25, 1953Calender converter

• Bertha Antonia Maria Reijnders, Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland († 1996)
• Stephan Vermie, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Erik Theodorus Cornelis Knippenberg, Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie Koek, Haaften († 1988)
• Maria Wilhelmina Schoots, Nieuwenhagen († 2015)
• Levenloos ter Maat, Holten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1953)
• Kelvin LeRoy Boltjes, Akron, Washington County, Colorado († 2019)
• Cornelia Maria Elisabeth Felderhof († 2007)
• Christiane Van Camp, Beerse, België († 1999)
• Johannes (Hans) Meijer, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1990)

• Anna Maria Hubertina CLEMENT (46), Sittard (NL/LI)
• Adriana Schoone (93), Bergeijk
• Beatrix Philomena Maes (39), Antwerpen
• Anne Jans Feenstra (79), Sneek
• Christina Gerarda Sanders (71), Hoensbroek
• Christiaan de Brabander (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabetha Vanherck (94), Klein-Gelmen, België
• Aleida Grada Bolder (73), Oberhausen D
• Christina Gardina Peijnenburg (15), Esch
• Blanche Whitworth Atkin (84)

• 1951 » Ian McCartney, Scottish politician, Minister of State for Trade
• 1952 » Jacques Santini, French footballer and coach
• 1952 » Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1952 » Vladislav Tretiak, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1953 » Anthony Venables, English economist, author, and academic
• 1953 » Gary Cosier, Australian cricketer
• 1953 » Ron Clements, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 » Melvin Burgess, English author
• 1954 » Róisín Shortall, Irish educator and politician
• 1954 » Randy Cross, American football player and sportscaster

• 1941 » Salih Bozok, Turkish commander and politician (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (b. 1858)
• 1944 » George Herriman, American cartoonist (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player (b. 1859)
• 1944 » William Stephens, American engineer and politician, 24th Governor of California (b. 1859)
• 1945 » Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (b. 1903)
• 1961 » Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1875)
• 1970 » Anita Louise, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1972 » George Sanders, English actor (b. 1906)
• 1973 » Olga Grey, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1896)

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.
• 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.
• April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• 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.
• September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 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.

The temperature on April 25, 1953 was between 3.5 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.