About the day » Monday May 11, 1953Calender converter

• Daphne Eleonore Schotten, Tandjung Balai (Sumatra) († 1994)
• Tjebbe Regnerus AUKES, Doniaga(Friesland) († 1962)
• Adrianius Beeke, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Vincent C.M. van Alem, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Herbert John UNGRICHT, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 2004)
• joseph gangolphus johannes wijnands, helden-koningslust
• alberta maria theodora (bertha) craenen, helden-grashoek
• Riet Tas († 1992)
• Francisca Rosalia Maria Vermeulen, Boskoop († 1989)
• William Joseph PFEILER, Minneapolis,MN († 1953)

• Anna Constantia Van Der Lee (76), Zeist
• Antoon Hubert Verlaek (69), Belfeld
• Arnoldus Maria Verploegen (46), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Frederikdr van Doornum (23), Broek Op L'Dijk
• Anna Constantia van der Lee (76), Zeist
• Antonius Hubert Verlaek (69), Belfeld, Gemeente Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Johanna van Hulten (72), Waalwijk
• Christina Catharina Schepers (39), Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arthur Victor Hayes (49)
• Anna Maria Crompvoets (70), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1944 » John Benaud, Australian cricketer
• 1948 » Jack Cantoni, French rugby player († 2013)
• 1948 » Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician
• 1950 » Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author
• 1950 » Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor († 2014)
• 1951 » Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta
• 1954 » John Gregory, English footballer and manager
• 1955 » John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven
• 1957 » Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician
• 1962 » Steve Bono, American football player

• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)
• 1979 » Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

• 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 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
• April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
• April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• 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.

The temperature on May 11, 1953 was between -1.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.