About the day » Sunday July 5, 1953Calender converter

• Hendrik Boeve, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Rae Jean Landas, West Union, Fayette County, Iowa, United States of America († 2004)
• N.N. Buckers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Charles David Martin, Little Rock, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Henk Nijhoff, Nijverdal
• Gerarda Maria Gesina - Gerda Suelmann, klazienaveen.emmen († 2003)
• José Moons († 2004)
• Piet Henskens († 2009)
• Johannes Lubbertsen, Putten († 2016)
• John Albert Subritzki, Kaeo, Whangaroa, NZ († 1999)

• Benjamin Edgar Worthington [Ki] (81)
• Charlotte Bertha' Marie Schellenberg (54), Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hessen, Germany
• Albert Harms (72), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonius Hendrikus Terlien (89), Hoogland, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles (Charlie) Alvin Jimmo Sr. (85), Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States of America
• Berend Hulsing (70), Parkersburg, Butler, Iowa (USA)
• Anna Bottema Jurgens (72), Windom, Cottonwood, Minnesota
• Aaltje Lindoorn (74), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Harms (72), Emmen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Jurjens (71), Windom, Cottonwood County, Minnesota

• 1950 » Carlos Caszely, Chilean footballer
• 1950 » Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1950 » Michael Monarch, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1951 » Goose Gossage, American baseball player
• 1951 » Roger Wicker, American colonel, lawyer, and politician
• 1953 » Caryn Navy, American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1954 » Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1954 » John Wright, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1955 » Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player and coach († 2019)
• 1955 » Tony Hadley, English footballer

• 1937 » Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1943 » Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880)
• 1945 » John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1948 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
• 1948 » Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (b. 1871)
• 1957 » Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1966 » George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

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.
• March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
• March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
• November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
• December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

The temperature on July 5, 1953 was between 12.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.