About the day » Wednesday August 19, 1953Calender converter

• Ferdinand Groeneveld, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Margaretha Adriana Cornelia Schouten, Amsterdam († 1981)
• Catarina Lucia de Fatima Guzi, Siqueira Campos, Paraná, Brasil († 1992)
• Peter Kamsma, USA († 1979)
• Caby Pellencau, Surabaja, Jawa Timur (Djawa Timur), Indonesië
• Annemarie Elisabeth (Ansje) Niels, Millingen a/ Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Robert Theodoor van der Mark, Noordwijkerhout († 2019)
• Hub Janssen, Valkenburg, Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Nederland († 1999)
• Anthonius ( Tonny) Weijers, Wanssum, Nederland († 1953)
• Maria Johanna Gezina (Marianne) Grundel, Losser, 7581, Nederland († 2010)

• Cornelis Johannes Fakkel (63), Rotterdam
• Carl Feigum (74), Starbuck, Pope, Minnesota, United States
• Anje Grietje de Groot (35), West Branche (Nova Scotia)
• Ettien Martens (23), amsterdam, Nederland
• Arthur John Knibbs (762), Middlesex, Surrey, United Kingdom
• Anje Grietje de Groot (35), West Branche, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Agnes de Graauw (70), ´s-Gravenhage
• Bauke Rentjes HENSTRA (78), Achtkarspelen Friesland Netherlands
• Doodgeboren kind Spanjers (0), Eindhoven
• Albertus Staverman (74), Vlissingen

• 1950 » Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
• 1951 » Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 » John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter
• 1952 » Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
• 1953 » Mary Matalin, American political consultant
• 1954 » Oscar Larrauri, Argentinian race car driver
• 1955 » Mary-Anne Fahey, Australian actress
• 1955 » Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1955 » Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominica-born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1955 » Peter Gallagher, American actor

• 1936 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1954 » Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
• 1957 » David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)

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 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
• February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
• August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
• September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on August 19, 1953 was between 8.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.