List of Famous people who died at 53

Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard was a French political scientist and disability activist with tetraplegia due to myopathy.

Rudolf Karl Wütherich, most commonly known as Rolf Wütherich, was a German Luftwaffe mechanic and pilot, and later an automotive engineer and racer who was riding in James Dean's Porsche during Dean's fatal car crash on September 30, 1955. He experienced many personal difficulties as a result of the crash and himself died in a car accident 26 years later.

Olga Viktorovna Ulianova Ольга Викторовна Ульянова was a Russian historian, born in the Soviet Union, naturalized Chilean. She specialized in contemporary history, Cold War, Chilean communism and the international non-state networks.

Rory Young was a Zambian-born Irish conservationist. Rory Young was an Irish national and a wildlife conservationist and anti-poaching strategist. His company Chengeta Wildlife, operates across Africa. Young was killed by jihadists in Burkina Faso, West Africa, along with the Spanish journalist David Beriáin and the documentary filmmaker Roberto Fraile while working on a documentary about his work in Africa.

Turki bin Sultan Al Saud was deputy minister of culture and information of Saudi Arabia and a member of House of Saud.

Igor Pavlovich Farkhutdinov was governor of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia during 1995–2003.

Victor Démé was a Burkinabé musician and singer-songwriter originating from a Mandinka family. His death was caused by a bout of malaria.

Werner Pochath was an Austrian film actor. He worked in Germany, Italy and the United States, and then in the 1980s he began a second career as a Hollywood agent. He had been the partner of the ballet director of the Hamburg State Opera, John Neumeier.

Caspar Pemberton Scott Bowden was a British privacy advocate, formerly a chief privacy adviser at Microsoft. Styled as "an independent advocate for information privacy rights, and public understanding of privacy research in computer science", he was on the board of the Tor anonymity service. and a fellow of the British Computer Society. Having predicted US mass surveillance programmes such as PRISM from open sources, he gathered renewed attention after the Snowden leaks vindicated his warnings.

Paul Young was a British singer and songwriter. He achieved success in the bands Sad Café and Mike + the Mechanics.