List of Famous people who died at 53

Desmond McAleenan was an Irish-American soccer player and coach who played as a goalkeeper.

Hansi Lang was an Austrian singer and actor.

Isidora Žebeljan was a Serbian composer and conductor. She was a professor of composition at the Belgrade Music Academy and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Margaret Leighton, CBE was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. Her film appearances included in Anatole de Grunwald's The Winslow Boy (1948). For The Go-Between (1971), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Michael Karoli was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can.

Kōtetsuyama Toyoya , born Kōnoshin Suga , was a sumo wrestler from Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. After his retirement he became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association and the head coach of Onaruto stable.

Albert Paul Shenar was an American actor and theater director, known for portraying the Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa, in Scarface (1983).

Ian Mackendrick Hendry was an English actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of The Avengers and The Lotus Eaters, and played roles in the films The Hill (1965), Repulsion (1965), Get Carter (1971), and Theatre of Blood (1973).

Anicée Alvina, also known as Anicée Schahmaneche (b. Anicée Shahmanesh or Anicee Schahmane was a French singer and actress.

Seán McGinley is an Irish actor. He has appeared in about 80 films and television series.