Famous People Who Died In 1953
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1953. This list includes people like Joseph Stalin, Mary of Teck, Lavrentiy Beria, Hank Williams, Jim Thorpe and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, poets and physicists who died in 1953. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
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Hank Williams(One of the Most Significant and Influential Singers and Songwriters of the 20th Century)
Birthdate: September 17, 1923
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Mount Olive, Alabama, United States
Died: January 1
2
Jim Thorpe(American Athlete and Olympic Gold Medalist)
Birthdate: May 28, 1887
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States
Died: March 28
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
Birthdate: March 26, 1881
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Florence
Died: January 2
Birthdate: October 27, 1914
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Swansea
Died: November 9
Birthdate: April 23, 1891
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Krasne, Ukraine
Died: March 5
6
Joseph Stalin(Soviet Political Leader & Dictator Who Led the Soviet Union from 1922 Until His Death in 1953)
Birthdate: December 18, 1878
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Gori, Georgia
Died: March 5
7
Eugene O'Neill(American Playwright and Winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Birthdate: October 16, 1888
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 27
8
Edwin Powell Hubble(American Astronomer Who is Regarded as the Leading Observational Cosmologist of the 20th Century)
Birthdate: November 20, 1889
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Marshfield, Missouri, United States
Died: September 28
Birthdate: January 23, 1910
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Liberchies, Belgium
Died: May 16
10
Herman J. Mankiewicz(American Screenwriter Best Known for His Academy Award Winning Film 'Citizen Kane')
Birthdate: November 7, 1897
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: March 5
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Robert A. Taft
(Politician)
Birthdate: September 8, 1889
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died: July 31
Birthdate: March 22, 1868
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Morrison
Died: December 19
Birthdate: November 11, 1872
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Died: July 17
14
Derek Bentley
(Epileptic British Man Convicted and Hanged for the Murder of a Policeman, at the Age of 19)
Birthdate: June 30, 1933
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Southwark, London, England
Died: January 28
15
Hilaire Belloc(Poet and Author Best Known for His Humorous Poem ‘Cautionary Tales for Children’)
Birthdate: July 27, 1870
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France
Died: July 16
16
James Finlayson
(actor, comedian, stage actor)
Birthdate: August 27, 1887
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Falkirk
Died: October 9
17
Jonathan M. Wainwright
(General)
Birthdate: August 23, 1883
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Died: September 2
18
Ivan Bunin(The First Russian Writer to Receive the Nobel Prize for Literature)
Birthdate: October 22, 1870
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Voronezh, Russia
Died: November 8
19
Jorge Negrete
(Actor, Singer, Film actor)
Birthdate: November 30, 1911
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Guanajuato
Died: December 5
Birthdate: July 6, 1901
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Calcutta, India
Died: June 23
21
Ibn Saud(King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953)
Birthdate: January 15, 1875
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died: November 9
Height: 6'9" (206 cm)
Birthdate: February 19, 1866
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Greene County
Died: June 27
23
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
Birthdate: March 19, 1879
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Cheshire
Died: July 19
Birthdate: October 15, 1893
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Romania
Died: April 4
25
Maud Gonne
(English-born Irish Republican Revolutionary, Suffragette & Actress)
Birthdate: December 21, 1866
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Tongham, England
Died: April 27
26
Millard Mitchell
(American Character Actor)
Birthdate: August 14, 1903
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
Died: October 13
Birthdate: February 17, 1914
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Carolina, Puerto Rico
Died: July 6
Birthdate: October 2, 1901
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Chatillon-sur-Seine, France
Died: March 23
29
Tazio Nuvolari
(Former Italian Racing Driver)
Birthdate: November 16, 1892
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Castel d’Ario, Italy
Died: August 11
30
Richard von Mises
(Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, Engineer, University teacher)
Birthdate: April 19, 1883
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Lviv
Died: July 14
31
Iuliu Maniu
(32nd Prime Minister of Romania Who was Later Convicted of Treason and Given Life Imprisonment)
Birthdate: January 8, 1873
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Badacin, Romania
Died: February 5
32
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
(Duke)
Birthdate: November 17, 1887
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Penzing, Vienna, Austria
Died: January 30
33
Julian Tuwim
(Polish Poet and Co-Founder of 'Skamander', An Experimental Poetry Group)
Birthdate: September 13, 1894
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Łódź, Poland
Died: December 27
Birthdate: September 18, 1888
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Zürich
Died: March 21
35
Vera Mukhina
(Russian Painter and Sculptor)
Birthdate: July 1, 1889
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Died: October 6
36
Kid Nichols
(Baseball manager)
Birthdate: September 14, 1869
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Died: April 11
37
Johan Laidoner
(Estonian Statesman and General Who was the Commander of the Defence Forces During the Estonian War of Independence)
Birthdate: February 12, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Viljandi County, Estonia
Died: March 13
Birthdate: 1887 AD
Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Died: 1953 AD
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Rudolph Schindler
(One of the Seminal Master Architects Who Defined Modern Architecture in Southern California)
Birthdate: September 10, 1887
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: August 22
40
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(Translator)
Birthdate: April 14, 1872
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Mumbai
Died: December 10
41
Bill Tilden
(American Tennis Player Who was the World No. 1 Amateur for Six Consecutive Years, From 1920 to 1925)
Birthdate: February 10, 1893
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: June 5
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
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James Jackson Jeffries
(Boxer)
Birthdate: April 15, 1875
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Carroll, Ohio, United States
Died: March 3
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
43
Ruth Crawford Seeger
(Composer)
Birthdate: July 3, 1901
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: East Liverpool, Ohio, United States
Died: November 18
44
John Marin
(painter, architect)
Birthdate: December 23, 1870
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Rutherford
Died: October 2
45
Étienne Balsan
(horsebreeder, jockey)
Birthdate: February 11, 1880
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris
Died: 1953 AD
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Francis Picabia
(French Avant-Garde Painter and Poet Who was One of the Early Major Figures of the 'Dada Movement')
Birthdate: January 22, 1879
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: November 30
47
Emil August Fieldorf
(Military officer)
Birthdate: March 20, 1895
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kraków, Poland
Died: February 24
48
Richard Walther Darré
(Politician, Agronomist)
Birthdate: July 14, 1895
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: September 5
49
Xu Beihong
(Chinese Painter)
Birthdate: July 19, 1895
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Yixing, China
Died: September 26
Birthdate: March 14, 1894
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Chanute, Kansas, United States
Died: January 7