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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Maude Adams
Actor
11-Nov-1872 17-Jul-1953 Stage actress, Peter Pan
Fred E. Ahlert
Composer
19-Sep-1892 20-Oct-1953 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Mary Anderson
Inventor
19-Feb-1866 27-Jun-1953 Inventor of the windshield wiper
Ed Barrow
Baseball
10-May-1868 15-Dec-1953 Yankees General Manager, 1920-45
Arnold Bax
Composer
8-Nov-1883 3-Oct-1953 Symphonist, Tone Poet
Hilaire Belloc
Author
27-Jul-1870 16-Jul-1953 The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Lavrenty Beria
Government
29-Mar-1899 23-Dec-1953 Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46
Nigel Bruce
Actor
14-Feb-1895 8-Oct-1953 Played Rathbone's Dr. Watson
Ivan Bunin
Author
10-Oct-1870 8-Oct-1953 Russian short story writer, Light Breathing
Jesse Burkett
Baseball
4-Dec-1868 27-May-1953 The Crab, MLB Hall of Famer
Robin Bush
Relative
20-Dec-1949 11-Oct-1953 George W. Bush sister, died at age four
Jesse Martin Combs
Politician
7-Jul-1889 21-Aug-1953 Congressman from Texas, 1945-53
Ruth Porter Crawford
Musicologist
3-Jul-1901 18-Nov-1953 Composer, musical ethnologist
George Creel
Journalist
1-Dec-1876 2-Oct-1953 Head of the Committee on Public Information
Jan Czochralski
Scientist
23-Oct-1885 22-Apr-1953 Czochralski Process
Lee Dixon
Actor
22-Jan-1914 8-Jan-1953 Ready, Willing and Able
Raoul Dufy
Painter
3-Jun-1877 23-Mar-1953 French Fauvist painter
Edmund Dulac
Artist
22-Oct-1882 25-May-1953 Children's book illustrator
James Finlayson
Actor
27-Aug-1887 9-Oct-1953 D'oh!
William L. Frierson
Government
3-Sep-1868 25-May-1953 US Solicitor General, 1920-21
Hans Fritzsche
Government
21-Apr-1900 27-Sep-1953 Reich minister of radio propaganda
Porter Hall
Actor
19-Sep-1888 6-Oct-1953 Going My Way
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
Head of State
4-Feb-1862 12-Oct-1953 Prime Minister of Sweden, 1914-17
Edwin Hubble
Astronomer
20-Nov-1889 28-Sep-1953 Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law
Herbert E. Ives
Physicist
21-Jul-1882 13-Nov-1953 Facsimile machine
Moses E. Kiley
Religion
13-Nov-1876 15-Apr-1953 Archbishop of Milwaukee, 1940-53
James L. Kraft
Business
11-Dec-1874 Feb-1953 Inventor of processed cheese
Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
Politician
6-Feb-1895 24-Feb-1953 US Senator, committed suicide
Ivan Lebedeff
Actor
18-Jun-1895 31-Mar-1953 Russian-American character actor
Armin O. Leuschner
Astronomer
16-Jan-1868 22-Apr-1953 Astronomer at Berkeley
Ralph Linton
Anthropologist
27-Feb-1893 25-Dec-1953 The Study of Man
Chris-Pin Martin
Actor
19-Nov-1893 27-Jun-1953 The Ox-Bow Incident
Mary of Teck
Royalty
26-May-1867 24-Mar-1953 Queen Mary, Consort of George V
Daniel T. McCarty
Politician
18-Jan-1912 28-Sep-1953 Governor of Florida, 1953
Charles E. Merriam
Scholar
15-Nov-1874 8-Jan-1953 American Political Ideas
Robert A. Millikan
Physicist
22-Mar-1868 19-Dec-1953 Determined the charge of an electron
Millard Mitchell
Actor
14-Aug-1903 13-Oct-1953 My Six Convicts
Iris Morley
Author
10-May-1910 27-Jul-1953 A Thousand Lives
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright
16-Oct-1888 27-Nov-1953 Long Day's Journey Into Night
Francis Picabia
Painter
22-Jan-1879 30-Nov-1953 Cubist, Dadaist
Walter B. Pitkin
Psychologist
6-Feb-1878 25-Jan-1953 Life Begins at Forty
Ludwig Prandtl
Physicist
4-Feb-1875 15-Aug-1953 Father of Aerodynamics
Sergei Prokofiev
Composer
23-Apr-1891 5-Mar-1953 Peter and the Wolf
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Film Director
28-Feb-1893 30-Jun-1953 Mother
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Novelist
8-Aug-1896 14-Dec-1953 The Yearling
David A. Reed
Politician
21-Dec-1880 10-Feb-1953 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-35
Django Reinhardt
Jazz Musician
23-Jan-1910 16-May-1953 Gypsy jazz guitarist
Irving Reis
Film Director
7-May-1906 3-Jul-1953 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Ethel Rosenberg
Relative
28-Sep-1915 19-Jun-1953 Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg
Spy
12-May-1918 19-Jun-1953 Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR
King Ibn Saud
Head of State
1876 9-Nov-1953 Founder of Saudi Arabia
Clarence Saunders
Business
9-Aug-1881 14-Oct-1953 Father of modern retailing
James Scullin
Head of State
18-Sep-1876 28-Jan-1953 Prime Minister of Australia, 1929-32
Edward Sedgwick
Film Director
7-Nov-1892 7-Mar-1953 The Cameraman
David Sholtz
Politician
6-Oct-1891 21-Mar-1953 Governor of Florida, 1933-37
Lee Shubert
Theatre Producer
25-Mar-1871 25-Dec-1953 Broke the Erlanger theater syndicate
Albert Spalding
Violinist
15-Aug-1888 26-May-1953 American violin virtuoso
Josef Stalin
Head of State
18-Dec-1878 5-Mar-1953 Brutal dictator, Soviet Union
Lewis Stone
Actor
15-Nov-1879 12-Sep-1953 Judge James Hardy
Robert A. Taft
Politician
8-Sep-1889 31-Jul-1953 US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53
Vladimir Tatlin
Sculptor
16-Dec-1885 31-May-1953 Monument to the Third International
Godfrey Tearle
Actor
12-Oct-1884 8-Jun-1953 The 39 Steps
Dylan Thomas
Poet
27-Oct-1914 9-Nov-1953 Most influential Welsh poet
Jim Thorpe
Football
28-May-1887 28-Mar-1953 Olympics and football
Bill Tilden
Tennis
10-Feb-1893 5-Jun-1953 Winner of 21 Grand Slam titles
Charles W. Tobey
Politician
22-Jul-1880 24-Jul-1953 Governor and Senator from New Hampshire
Maurice J. Tobin
Politician
22-May-1901 19-Jul-1953 US Secretary of Labor, 1948-53
Fred Vinson
Judge
22-Jan-1890 8-Sep-1953 US Chief Justice, 1946-53
Gerd von Rundstedt
Military
12-Dec-1875 24-Feb-1953 German Field Marshall
Robert F. Wagner, Sr.
Politician
8-Jun-1877 4-May-1953 US Senator from New York, 1927-49
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Military
23-Aug-1883 2-Sep-1953 Commander of the Philippines
George White
Politician
21-Aug-1872 15-Dec-1953 Governor of Ohio, 1931-35
Hank Williams, Sr.
Country Musician
17-Sep-1923 1-Jan-1953 Take These Chains From My Heart
Dooley Wilson
Actor
3-Apr-1886 30-May-1953 Sam in Casablanca
George A. Wilson
Politician
1-Apr-1884 8-Sep-1953 Governor of Iowa, 1939-43
Roland Young
Actor
11-Nov-1887 5-Jun-1953 Cosmo Topper


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