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| 1953 |
| | | Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando in the film On the Waterfront | |
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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 |
| | | English author L.P. Hartley sets his novel The Go-Between in the summer of 1900 | |
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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 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta, charged with having organized the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, is sentenced to seven years in prison | |
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| 1953 |
| | | James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US microbiologist Jonas Salk announces the discovery of an effective vaccine against polio | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism | |
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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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