List of Famous people who died at 53

Paul Greco was an American actor and musician.

Claudio Costa was a Contemporary Artist from the 1970s avant-garde movement.

Patrick James Cain Sr. was an American football offensive lineman who played one season with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He first enrolled at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona before transferring to Wichita State University and attended Pomona High School in Arvada, Colorado. Cain was also a member of the Denver Dynamite and Washington Commandos of the Arena Football League. He was a member of the Denver Dynamite team that won ArenaBowl I. He died of lung cancer in 2016.

Michael Meinecke was a German art historian, archaeologist and Islamic studies scholar who was director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin from 1988 to 1995.

Marc Fonbaustier is a French diplomat, Deputy Managing Director of Agence de Coopération Médias since September 2017, France Ambassador to Togo from 2014 to 2017, and General Consul of France to Hong-Kong and Macau from 2009 to 2010.

Michael Kenneth Hooker was an American academic who served as the eighth Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Bennington College.

Bernard Fein was an American actor, television producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for co-creating and associate producing the 1960s American television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes; a show which he also occasionally wrote for, including the pilot episode. He directed only one film, the 1974 Swedish movie Pogled iz potkrovlija.