About the day » Friday May 22, 1953Calender converter

• Scott Reid STEPHEN, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America († 2004)
• Daisy Maria Elisabeth Huberta Michaela Julia van Lerchenfeld-Köfering-Schönberg, Köfering, Oberpalts, Beieren († 1963)
• Arie de Vreugd, Leiden († 2015)
• Catharina Antonia Maria Oprins, Breda († 1954)
• Maas van den Hoorn, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 2022)
• Cornelis Nicolaas Heemskerk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands († 1953)
• Rebecca K Harms, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa († 2012)
• Orson Henry Klaverweide († 2021)
• Winkens, Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelius Antonius Franciscus Leijten, Etten-Leur (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1953)

• Cornelia Uitman (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barker (73), Salford, Lancashire, England
• Ada Selina Preece (81), Bristol, England
• Adrianus Wijnandus de Ronde (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Geertruida Giepmans (61), Haarlem
• Antoontje W F de Haan (1)
• Conrad M. "Cooney" Walterscheid (53), Gainesville, Cooke, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Cornelis van Gorkom (78), Helmond, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Antoon Johan Pels (63), Deventer
• Anna Margaretha Nieborg (61), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1949 » Cheryl Campbell, English actress
• 1949 » Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat
• 1950 » Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1953 » Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1953 » François Bon, French writer
• 1953 » Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1954 » Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist († 2002)
• 1954 » Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 » Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet († 2018)
• 1957 » Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician

• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)

• 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 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
• March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• 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.
• September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
• October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on May 22, 1953 was between 13.2 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.