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Fed Reserve Bd sees '53 total up 6% to $285 billion
talks with anti-US demonstrators
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1953Curtis Armstrong, American actor, singer, and producer[†]
Curtis Johnathan Armstrong is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds films, Herbert Viola on the TV series Moonlighting, Miles Dalby in the film Risky Business, and record producer Ahmet Ertegun in the film Ray as well as for playing the role of Metatron on the TV series Supernatural.
1953Steve Bannon, American media executive and political figure[†]
Stephen Kevin Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, pundit and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of president Donald Trump's first administration before Trump fired him. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Since 2019, Bannon has hosted the War Room podcast.
1953Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov is a prominent member of the generation which is widely considered to be the "founding fathers" of Russian rock music. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium which has been active since 1972. Grebenshchikov is frequently referred to as BG, after his initials.
1953Tarmo Kõuts, Estonian admiral and politician[†]
Tarmo Kõuts is an Estonian politician and former Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces.
1953Lyle Mays, American keyboardist and composer (died 2020)[†]
Lyle David Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards.
1953Richard Stone, American composer (died 2001)[†]
Richard Stone was an American composer. He played an important part in the revival of Warner Bros. animation in the 1990s, composing music and songs for Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, The Plucky Duck Show, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Histeria!, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Freakazoid!, and Road Rovers, as well as the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment fanfare. Many consider Stone to be an heir to the style of Carl W. Stalling.
1953Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)[†]
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest American plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]