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Ki scores Dean plan; scores Rhee; Dean defends Rhee; urges setting up subcoms for concurrent discussion of composition, time and place; at news conf explains 'flexible' approach; SK observer Cho Chung Hwan scores lack of progress
elected NJ Gov
L Gerosa, Dem, elected Controller
Dems elected to 23 of 25 seats
AFL will ask NLRB to bar ILA from bargaining election ballot; A M Keeney, newly-apptd chief of AFL organizing drive, charges employer gifts to ILA officers show union dominated by cos; P J Connolly scores move; NLRB calls conf of unions and Shipping Assn; many obstacles to quick vote seen; Keeney confident of AFL victory in vote 'free of terror'; claims 11,000 members
1953Mick Buckley, English footballer (died 2013)[†]
Mick Buckley was an English footballer who played for Everton, Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Carlisle United and Middlesbrough as a midfielder.
1953P. J. Carey, American baseball player and manager (died 2012)[†]
Paul Jerome "P. J." Carey was an American professional baseball player, manager, instructor, and farm system official.
1953Carlos Gutierrez, Cuban-American businessman and politician, 35th United States Secretary of Commerce[†]
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a co-founder and executive chairman of EmPath. Gutierrez is a former chairman of the board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. He served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009.
1953Peter Lord, English animator, director, and producer, co-founded Aardman Animations[†]
Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE is a British animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit. He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
1953Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)[†]
Van Wesley Stephenson was an American singer-songwriter. He scored three US Billboard Hot 100 hits in the 1980s as a solo artist, and later became tenor vocalist in the country music band BlackHawk in the 1990s. In addition, Van co-wrote several singles for other artists, such as Restless Heart. Stephenson died of melanoma in 2001.
1953Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver[†]
Jacques-Joseph Villeneuve is a Canadian racing driver. He is the younger brother of the late Gilles Villeneuve, and uncle to Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 Formula One World Champion. He is sometimes called "Uncle Jacques" to differentiate him from his nephew, and is also known by the nickname "Jacquo". Villeneuve had a varied motorsport career, taking in Formula Atlantic, CART, Can-Am, snowmobile racing and Formula One, and remains a revered figure in Canadian motorsport circles. Villeneuve was the first three-time winner of the World Championship Snowmobile Derby.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]