About the day » Wednesday September 23, 1953Calender converter

• Jerome Andrew Kness, Euclid, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Marcos Castro Marchini, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil († 1981)
• Gerardus Cornelis Maria Hofstee, Laren († 2007)
• Henricus Hubertus Kuijs, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1977)
• Timothy Alan Borden († 1988)
• Antoon Gertie Geurts, Schaesberg
• Frankelina Willemina van Pijkeren, Dalfsen († 2017)
• Debra "Debbie" S. Krygoski, Mount Carmel, Wabash, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Jacobus Cornelis Rovers, Oud Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Daniel Lee Sudenga († 2001)

• Adam de Joode (79), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charlotte Florentine RAZOUX SCHULTZ (72)
• Effie Bonema (72), Muskegon (Michigan / USA)
• elizabeth MAASKANT (73), klaaswaal
• Albert Metelmann (61), Schlankreye 32, Hamburg-Rotherbaum, Bezirk Eimsbüttel, Hamburg
• Cornelis Bosman (56), Leiden
• Cornelis BOOTSMAN (80), Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Postma (63), Oldenzaal, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia Franken (42), Essen, Antwerpen, België
• Adriaan Willebrordus van Duiven (92), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1950 » George Garzone, American saxophonist and educator
• 1951 » Steven Springer, American guitarist and songwriter († 2012)
• 1952 » Anshuman Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
• 1952 » Dennis Lamp, American baseball player
• 1952 » Jim Morrison, American baseball player and manager
• 1952 » Mark Bego, American author
• 1953 » Nicholas Witchell, English journalist
• 1954 » Charlie Barnett, American actor († 1996)
• 1954 » Cherie Blair, English lawyer and academic
• 1956 » Peter David, American author, actor, and screenwriter

• 1939 » Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Hale Holden, American businessman (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
• 1971 » James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)

• 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 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
• March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
• July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on September 23, 1953 was between 11.6 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.