page_title: 1953
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1953 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: en:Pat Benatar, live, 2007-09-07
context_page_description: 1953 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician (d. 2018)
  Gary Johnson, American businessman, politician and 29th Governor of New Mexico
  January 2 – Vincent Racaniello, American virologist
  January 4 – George Tenet, American Central Intelligence Agency director
  January 5
  Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
  Mike Rann, Australian politician
  January 6
  Danny Pearson, American singer (d. 2018)
  Malcolm Young, Australian musician (d. 2017)
  January 8 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
  January 10
  Pat Benatar, American rock singer (Hit Me With Your Best Shot)
  Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
  January 13 – John Wake, English cricketer
  January 15
  Kent Hovind, American creation science evangelist
  Randy White, American football player
  January 16 – Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi, founder of the terrorist group The Order (d. 1984)
  January 18 – B. K. Misra, Indian neurosurgeon
  January 19
  Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor and musician
  Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player, politician
  January 20 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and sex offender (d. 2019)
  January 21
  Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft (d. 2018)
  Glenn Kaiser, American Christian blues-rock, heavy metal, R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist
  January 22
  Myung-whun Chung, South Korean conductor, pianist
  Jim Jarmusch, American director
  January 23
  Dušan Nikolić, Yugoslav footballer (d. 2018)
  Robin Zander, American singer, guitarist (Cheap Trick)
  January 26
  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark, Secretary General of NATO
  Lucinda Williams, American singer, songwriter
  January 28 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player, executive
  January 29
  Peter Baumann, German keyboard player, songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
  Paulin Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
  Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
  Juan Paredes, Mexican boxer
  Pierre Jacob, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
  Louie Pérez, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
  Fred Riebeling, Australian politician
  Grażyna Szmacińska, Polish chess player
  Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
  Yorie Terauchi, Japanese actress
  Hwang Woo-suk, South Korean veterinarian, academic
  January 31 – Sergei Ivanov, Russian first deputy prime minister and minister of defense
caption: Pat Benatar
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