1953 in Spain

Incumbents

• Caudillo: Francisco Franco

  Births

• February 14 – Valero Rivera López, handball coach
• March 4 – Agustí Villaronga, film director, screenwriter and actor
• April 12 – Álex Angulo, actor
• August 27 – Rosa Miguélez, politician
• Antonio Hernández, film director and screenwriter

  Deaths

• May 19 - Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and Prime Minister
• September 24 - Jacobo [Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba], Spanish aristocrat