List of Famous people who died at 53

George Michael

Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου
First Name George
Last Name Michael
Born on June 25, 1963
Died on December 25, 2016 (aged 53)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

George Michael was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He achieved seven number one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. Michael won various music awards including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards and six Ivor Novello Awards. In 2008, he was ranked 40th on Billboard's list of the Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time.

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Richard Ramirez

First Name Richard
Last Name Ramirez
Born on February 29, 1960
Died on June 7, 2013 (aged 53)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, known as Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer, serial rapist, kidnapper, pedophile, and burglar. His highly publicized home invasion crime spree terrorized the residents of the Greater Los Angeles area and later the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area from June 1984 until August 1985. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media.

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Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt Robinson
First Name Jackie
Born on January 31, 1919
Died on October 24, 1972 (aged 53)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

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Vic Morrow

Victor Harry Morozoff
First Name Vic
Last Name Morrow
Born on February 14, 1929
Died on July 23, 1982 (aged 53)

Victor Morrow was an American actor and director whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s ABC television series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and film dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God's Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976).

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Fred West

Frederick Walter Stephen West
First Name Fred
Born on September 29, 1941
Died on January 1, 1995 (aged 53)

Frederick Walter Stephen West was an English serial killer who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, the majority with his second wife, Rosemary West.

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John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf
First Name John
Last Name Denver
Born on December 31, 1943
Died on October 12, 1997 (aged 53)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career with folk music groups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling artists. By 1974, he was one of America's best-selling performers, and AllMusic has described Denver as "among the most beloved entertainers of his era".

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia
First Name Jerry
Born on August 1, 1942
Died on August 9, 1995 (aged 53)

Jerome John Garcia was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for being a principal songwriter, the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band the Grateful Dead, of which he was a founding member and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. Although he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.

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Emma Chambers

Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers
First Name Emma
Born on March 11, 1964
Died on February 21, 2018 (aged 53)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers was an English comic actress. She played the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the film Notting Hill (1999).

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Dian Fossey

First Name Dian
Last Name Fossey
Born on January 16, 1932
Died on December 26, 1985 (aged 53)

Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at Karisoke Research Center and prior career. It was adapted into a 1988 film of the same name.

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Mohammed Omar

First Name Mohammed
Last Name Omar
Born on November 30, 1959
Died on April 23, 2013 (aged 53)

Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid was an Afghan cleric, Islamist partisan fighter and political leader. He founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) in 1994 and served as its first leader until his death, including as the head of its government from 1996 to 2001. His death, however, remained concealed until July 2015, during which time the Taliban continued to issue statements in his name. Known for his reclusivity, he was a mythical and revered figure within the Taliban.

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Maurice Gibb

Maurice Ernest Gibb
First Name Maurice
Last Name Gibb
Born on December 22, 1949
Died on January 12, 2003 (aged 53)
Born in Middle

Maurice Ernest Gibb was a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved fame as a member of the Bee Gees. Although his elder brother Barry Gibb and fraternal twin brother Robin Gibb were the group's main lead singers, most of their albums included at least one or two songs featuring Maurice's lead vocals, including "Lay It on Me", "Country Woman" and "On Time". The Bee Gees were one of the most successful rock-pop groups of all time.

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Yakub Memon

First Name Yakub
Born on July 30, 1962
Died on July 30, 2015 (aged 53)
Born in India

Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an Indian terrorist who was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007. Yakub Memon was the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected and he was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 in Nagpur jail.

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Gord Downie

First Name Gord
Last Name Downie
Born on February 6, 1964
Died on October 17, 2017 (aged 53)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Gordon Edgar Downie was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from its formation in 1984 until his death in 2017. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and popular artists in Canadian music history.

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Kamil Durczok

First Name Kamil
Last Name Durczok
Born on March 6, 1968
Died on November 16, 2021 (aged 53)

Kamil Sebastian Durczok was a Polish journalist, Editor-in-Chief and presenter of TVN newscast Fakty TVN.

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James B. Donovan

First Name James
Last Name Donovan
Born on February 26, 1916
Died on January 19, 1970 (aged 53)

James Britt Donovan was an American lawyer and United States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services, ultimately becoming general counsel of the OSS, and an international diplomatic negotiator.

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Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Anne Vella
First Name Daphne
Born on August 26, 1964
Died on October 16, 2017 (aged 53)
Born in Malta

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese writer, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta. In particular, she focused on investigative journalism, reporting on government corruption, nepotism, patronage, allegations of money laundering, links between Malta's online gambling industry and organized crime, Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, and payments from the government of Azerbaijan. Caruana Galizia's national and international reputation was built on her regular reporting of misconduct by Maltese politicians and politically exposed persons.

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Christopher Stone

Thomas Edward Bourassa
First Name Christopher
Last Name Stone
Born on October 4, 1942
Died on October 20, 1995 (aged 53)

Christopher Stone was an American actor.

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Maria Callas

First Name Maria
Last Name Callas
Born on December 2, 1923
Died on September 16, 1977 (aged 53)

Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano.

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Linda Lovelace

Linda Susan Boreman
First Name Linda
Last Name Lovelace
Born on January 10, 1949
Died on April 22, 2002 (aged 53)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Linda Lovelace was an American pornographic actress known for her performance in the 1972 hardcore film Deep Throat. Although the film was an enormous success at the time, Boreman later said that her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, had threatened and coerced her into the performance. In her autobiography Ordeal, she described what went on behind the scenes. She later became a born again Christian and a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.

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Eduard Streltsov

First Name Eduard
Last Name Streltsov
Born on July 21, 1937
Died on July 22, 1990 (aged 53)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a footballer from the Soviet Union who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful attacking player, he scored the fourth-highest number of goals for the Soviet Union and has been called "the greatest outfield player Russia has ever produced". He is sometimes dubbed "the Russian Pelé".

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