The year was

1953

Here's everything we logged from 1953 — 2 worldwide and 1 from India.

Someone born this year is around 17 today.

Famous people born in 1953 Xi, Tony, Benazir…

Notable figures who share this birth year.

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Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012.
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Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.
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Benazir Bhutto
11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan (1953–2007).
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Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project.
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Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish actor.
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Moon Jae-in
12th President of the Republic of Korea.
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DNA structure discovered
Watson and Crick described the double helix, cracking the code of life itself.
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REM sleep discovered
Aserinsky and Kleitman discovered REM sleep. Suddenly we understood when dreams happen.

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Everest summited
Tenzing Norgay (Nepal-born, India-raised) and Edmund Hillary became the first to reach Everest's summit.