List of Famous people who died in 1953

Morgan Russell was a modern American artist. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright, he was the founder of Synchromism, a provocative style of abstract painting that dates from 1912 to the 1920s. Russell's "synchromies," which analogized color to music, were an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism.

Émile Bouhours was a French racing cyclist. He won the 1900 Paris–Roubaix race. Bouhours also competed in the 1899 Paris-Dijon race, as well as riding but not finishing the 1913 Tour de France and the Paris - Tours race of the same year.

Thomas John Perowne (1868–1954) was Archdeacon of Norwich from 1937 until his death on 25 August 1954.

Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva was the stage name of Maria Fyodorovna Yurkovskaya, a Russian/Soviet actress and Bolshevik administrator.

Marcel Herrand was a French stage and film actor best remembered for his roles in swashbuckling or historical films.

General Nobuyuki Abe was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea, and Prime Minister of Japan.

Ivan Lebedeff was a Russian film actor, lecturer and writer. He appeared in 66 films between 1926 and 1953. In 1940, his novel, Legion of Dishonor, was published.

Jean Witkowski, the son of Georges Martin Witkowski, was a French choral conductor and conductor.

Gustav Strube was a German-born conductor and composer. He was the founding conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1916, and taught at the Peabody Conservatory. He wrote two operas, Ramona, which premiered in 1916, and The Captive, which premiered at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore in February 1938. He was also a member of Baltimore's famous Saturday Night Club with H. L. Mencken.

James Davies Lightbody was an American middle distance runner, winner of six Olympic medals in the early 20th century.