About the day » Sunday September 27, 1953Calender converter

• Janet Lee Lemmons, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Johanna Wilhelmina Kuipers
• Sibbele POSTMA, Nijemardum
• NN van der Zwaan, Zwollerkerspel, Nederland († 1953)
• Willy Elbers († 2006)
• Wilhelmus Anthonius Jozef Pertijs, Etten († 1995)
• Jone Margaret Mary, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Nila Tencencia Jaqueline Michel, Curacao Ned Antillen († 2018)
• Craig Steven Walgenbach, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2009)
• N.N. Kilian, Culemborg

• Alfred A. IV Adams (58)
• Aaltien Gossen (80), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Wybes Feenstra (82), Molenend, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertien Klinkhamer (65), Schuilingsoord, Zuidlaren
• Antonius Joannes Haarman (72), Raalte
• Betje Douwes Engels (65), Hollum
• Christina Maria Westerhof (48), Denekamp
• Antonius Joannes (Toon) Haarman (72), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arend Drenth (87), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Augusta Abendroth #1435*u04x2 (72), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1951 » Paul Craig, English author and academic
• 1952 » Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian pilot, engineer, and astronaut
• 1952 » Katie Fforde, English author
• 1953 » Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Diane Abbott, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
• 1953 » Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter († 2012)
• 1953 » Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint
• 1954 » Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor
• 1954 » Larry Wall, American computer programmer and author
• 1954 » Ray Hadley, Australian radio host and sportscaster

• 1940 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901)
• 1960 » Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1965 » William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876)

• 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 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
• April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 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.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
• August 12 » The 7.2 M_s  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.

The temperature on September 27, 1953 was between 9.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.