List of Famous people who died in 1953

Clifford Porter Hall was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall typically played villains or comedic incompetent characters.

Edward Lawrence Leahy was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Käte Duncker was a German political and feminist activist who became a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and then the Communist Party of Germany.

Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Ernst Hermann Wilhelm Molden was an Austrian journalist and historian. An editor-in-chief of the Neue Freie Presse before WW2, he founded the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse in 1946.

Francis Ford was an American film actor, writer and director. He was the mentor and elder brother of film director John Ford. He also appeared in many of the latter's movies, including Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) and The Quiet Man (1952).

Roland Young was an English-born actor. He began his acting career on the London stage, but later found success in America and received an Academy Award nomination for his role in the film Topper (1937).