August 17, 1953

1953Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach^[†]

Michael Raymond Malthouse is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

1953Herta Müller, Romanian-German poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.

1953Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (died 2015)^[†]

Korrie Layun Rampan was an Indonesian novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, journalist, and politician.

1953Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist^[†]

Kevin Rowland is a British singer and musician best known as the frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners. The band had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.