Year 953 (CMLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Byzantine Empire
Europe
Africa
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Births
- September 14 – Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor (d. 973)
- September 21 – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Buyid prince
- Charles, duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 993)
- date unknown
- Fujiwara no Korenari, Japanese courtier (d. 989)
- Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (d. 995)
- Herbert III, count of Vermandois (d. 1015)
- Kisai Marvazi, Persian author and poet (d. 1002)
- Watanabe no Tsuna, Japanese samurai (d. 1025)
- Xiao Yanyan, Chinese Khitan empress (d. 1009)
- probable
- ÃÂlfheah, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1012)
- Al-Karaji, Persian mathematician
- Bermudo II, king of León and Galicia
Deaths
date unknown
References