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| 1953 |
| | | Fred Zinneman directs Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Black American Malcolm Little, who has joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, adopts the surname X to symbolize his rejection of his slave name | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US microbiologist Jonas Salk announces the discovery of an effective vaccine against polio | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Alfred Charles Kinsey completes his study of human sexuality with the publication of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US author James Baldwin publishes his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, set in Harlem | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938 | |
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| 1953 |
| | | William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sent to the electric chair as convicted spies | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US golfer Ben Hogan wins the US Open, the US Masters and the British Open in a single year | |
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