List of Famous people who died at 53

Wan Chi Keung was an Association football player, actor and businessman from Hong Kong.

Dalila Ennadre was a Moroccan film director.

Bogusław Cygan was a Polish footballer (striker) who played for such a clubs as Górnik Zabrze, Stal Mielec or Lausanne Sports. Cygan was a top goalscorer of Ekstraklasa in the 1994-95 season. After his playing career he became a football coach.

Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian entrepreneur who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 53.

Mümtaz Sevinç was a Turkish actor who had taken part in theater acting as well as many roles in TV's and movies. He graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Engineering Physics Department and in 1978 began working in the State Theater. In 1994, he began to take part in Istanbul State Theater. He died on the 24 January 2006. in Istanbul, Turkey.

Mustafa Yücedağ was a Turkish footballer who played as a midfielder.

Oleksandr Oleksiovich Zinchenko was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko had a controversial career that includes Soviet Komsomol leadership, business in Russia and Ukraine, participation in the pro-Leonid Kuchma Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), survival of cancer and joining the anti-Kuchma opposition.

Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer.