List of Famous people who died in 1953

Rudolph Michael Schindler (born Rudolf Michael Schlesinger was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century.

Berthold Viertel was an Austrian screenwriter and film director, known for his work in Germany, the UK and the US.

Rao Sahib Vellore Iyyasamy Munuswamy Pillai also spelled as Munisami Pillai, was an Indian businessman, politician, Scheduled Caste activist and activist of the Indian independence movement who served as the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of C. Rajagopalachari from 1937 to 1939.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Dorling Smiles CIE DSO DL was a Northern Irish politician.

Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, CIE, was an Indian civil servant, jurist, diplomat and statesman known for his key role in drafting the Constitution of India. He was also India's representative to the United Nations Security Council from 1950 to 1952. His brothers were Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Benegal Rama Rau and journalist and politician B. Shiva Rao.

Kimber Cornellus Sigler, commonly known as Kim Sigler, was an American attorney and politician who served as the 40th Governor of Michigan from 1947 to 1949.

Willis Smith was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1950 and 1953.

Herbert Blaché was a British-born American film director, producer and screenwriter, born of a French mother. He directed more than 50 films between 1912 and 1929.

Richard Edler von Mises was an Austrian Jewish scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He described his work in his own words shortly before his death as being on

"... practical analysis, integral and differential equations, mechanics, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, constructive geometry, probability calculus, statistics and philosophy."

Paul Frölich was a German journalist and left wing political activist and author who was a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany and founder of the party's paper, Die Rote Fahne. A Communist Party deputy in the Reichstag on two occasions, Frölich was expelled from the Party in 1928, after which he joined the organized German Communist Opposition movement. Frölich is best remembered as a biographer of Rosa Luxemburg.