A list of events in 1953 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 15 — Robert Alton Harris is born.
- 19 — Michael Lupo is born.
- 29 — Bruce Lindahl is born.
February[]
- 24 — Kathryn Bright (victim) is born.
- 25 — Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih died.
March[]
- 31 — John Christie is apprehended.
April[]
- 9 — Bernard Giles is born.
- 11 — Michel Proot is allegedly born.
- 12 — John Balaban is apprehended.
- 22 — Elmer Helm died.
- ? — Caroline Grills is apprehended.
May[]
- 30 — John Paul Phillips is born.
June[]
- 1 — David Berkowitz is born.
- 3 — John W. Hopkins is born.
- 7 — Malik Samartaney is born.
- 22 — Billy Battenfield is born.
- 26 — Robert Maudsley is born.
- 28 — Brookey Lee West is born.
July[]
- 4 — Leslie Allen Williams is born.
- 6 — Peter Dupas is born.
- 8 — Stephen Wayne Anderson is born.
- 12 — John Ausonius is born.
- 15 — John Christie died.
- 15 — Aleksandr Komin is born.
- 15 — David Martin Long is born.
- 15 — Alvin Neelley is born.
- 18 — Bandali Debs is born.
- 30 — Willie Jenkins is born.
August[]
- 18 — David Silva is born.
- 19 — Mary Anne Pesce (victim) is born.
- 21 — David Alan Gore is born.
- 26 — John Balaban died.
- 27 — Frederick Cox is born.
September[]
- 14 — Howard Neal is born.
- 30 — Dayton Leroy Rogers is born.
October[]
- 1 — Vernon Brown is born.
- 14 — Bobby Joe Long is born.
- 18 — Marvin Gabrion is born.
- 20 — Gregory Bowen is born.
- 29 — Anita Mary Luchessa (victim) is born.
November[]
- 7 — Arthur Kinlaw is born.
- 29 — Rose West is born.
- 30 — Robin Gecht is born.
- ? — Winona Freeman is apprehended.
December[]
- 2 — Wilmon Goodwin is apprehended.
- 19 — William Choyce is born.
- 26 — Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Jesus Aguilera is born.
- ? — Peter Albrecht is born.
- ? — Sérgio Antônio Baptistella is born.
- ? — Billy Battenfield is born.
- ? — Boris Bogdanov is born.
- ? — Eunice Brillhart is apprehended.
- ? — Willie Jones is born.
- ? — Majid Salek Mahmoudi is born (c.).
- ? — Alexander Makarkin is born.
- ? — Michael Moon is born.
- ? — Diane O'Dell is born.
- ? — Vladimir Storozhenko is born.
- ? — Vladimir Tretyakov is born.