Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1953

Leopold Wenger (1874–1953) was a prominent Austrian historian of ancient law. He fostered interdisciplinary study of the ancient world.

Martinus Nijhoff was a Dutch poet and essayist. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht. His debut was made in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar. From that moment he gradually expanded his reputation by his unique style of poetry: not experimental, like Paul Van Ostaijen, yet distinguished by the clarity of his language combined with mystical content. He was a literary craftsman who employed skilfully various verse forms from different literary epochs.

Nathan Banks,, fue un entomólogo, y aracnólogo estadounidense.

Alfred Vierkandt was a German sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher and philosopher of history. He is known for a broad and phenomenological Gesellschaftslehre promulgated in the 1920s, and for his formal sociology.

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz fue un guionista estadounidense, cuya mayor fama se debe a escribir el guion de Ciudadano Kane junto a Orson Welles, por el cual se hizo acreedor en 1941 de un Óscar al mejor guion original.^{[cita requerida]}

Sven Gustaf Wingqvist fue un ingeniero, inventor y empresario sueco. Su invento llamado rodamiento autocentrante es uno de los más importantes en el campo de la ingeniería mecánica.

Jimmy Finlayson fue un actor escocés que trabajó en el cine cómico mudo y sonoro. Calvo, con bigote postizo, Finlayson tiene muchos característicos gestos cómicos y es famoso por su entrecerrar de ojos y sus escandalosos movimientos de cabeza, y su clásica expresión "oooooh", que tan a menudo suele emplear en las comedias de Laurel y Hardy en su clásico papel que frustra los planes de la pareja.

Dmitrii Ivanovich Sosnowsky fue un botánico ruso.

Ralph Henry Cameron was an American businessman, prospector and politician who served as both Arizona Territory's Delegate to Congress and as an Arizona United States Senator. As a Territorial delegate, he saw Arizona achieve statehood in 1912. Cameron's greatest achievement in the US Senate was authorization for the Coolidge Dam.

Abdul Wahid Hasyim was the first Minister of Religious Affairs in the government of President Sukarno of Indonesia, a post he held in 1945, and from 1949 to 1952.