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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Visual art 1.2 Literature 1.2.1 Fiction 1.2.2 Non fiction 1.3 Film 1.3.1 Shorts 1.4 Music 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

• Founding of Olympia Press
• Founding of Playboy Magazine
• Founding of New York Film Society

Visual art

• Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon

Literature

Fiction

• Junkie by William Burroughs
• Watt by Samuel Beckett
• Une étude sur Raymond Roussel by Jean Ferry published by Losfeld in 1953.
• Writing Degree Zero by Barthes
• L'Anglais décrit dans le château fermé
• Waiting for Godot written by Samuel Beckett

Non fiction

• Prints and Visual Communication by William Ivins

Film

• The Wild One by László Benedek
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Summer with Monika by Ingmar Bergman
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday by Jacques Tati
• The Wages of Fear by Clouzot
• Glen or Glenda by Ed Wood Jr.

Shorts

• Les Statues meurent aussi by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
• Eaux d'artifice by Kenneth Anger

Music

• The Happy Wanderer
• C'est si bon
• Cry Me a River
• Kaw-Liga (song) by Hank Williams

Births

• Tanino Liberatore (1953 - )
• Dennis Bovell (1953 - )
• Jon Savage (1953 - )
• John Oswald (1953 - )
• Romain Slocombe (1953 - )
• Chaka Khan (1953 - )
• Wim Mertens (1953 - )
• Dennis Cooper (1953 - )

Deaths

• Rachilde (1860 - 1953)
• Alice Prin (Kiki) (1901 - 1953)
• Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953)
• Jean Epstein (1897 - 1953)