953

Events 

 Liudolf, Duke of Swabia and Conrad the Red rebel against German King Otto I.

 Births 

 Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
 Herbert III, Count of Vermandois
 Al-Karaji, Persian mathematician and engineer
 Kisai Marvazi, Persian poet

 Deaths 

 Abas I of Armenia, King of Armenia
 Ismail al-Mansur. third Fatimid Caliph
 Empress Dowager Yingtian of the Liao Dynasty
 Muhammad bin Musafir, Sallarid ruler of Tarum and Iranian Azerbaijan
 Rasso, Bavarian count, military leader, pilgrim, and saint.
 Rhodri ap Hywel, king of Deheubarth