List of Famous people who died in 1953

Heinrich Johannes Hermann Ranke was a German Egyptologist who worked at the University of Heidelberg. He was forced to leave during the Nazi regime as his wife had Jewish ancestors. He worked during period at the University of Pennsylvania.

Karl Hannemann was a German film actor.

Vsevolod Nikolayevich (Boris) Merkulov was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a member of the so-called "Georgian mafia" of Lavrenti Beria, head of the NKVD.

Albert Austin was an English actor, film star, director, and script writer, remembered for his work in Charlie Chaplin films.

Emil Ermatinger was a Swiss professor for Germanic philology.

Vincent Luke Palmisano was an American politician from Maryland.

Daniel Gregory Mason was an American composer and music critic.

Maurice Lugeon FRS(For) HFRSE FGS was a Swiss geologist, and the pioneer of nappe tectonics. He was a pupil of Eugène Renevier. Named for Maurice Lugeon, the lugeon is a measure of transmissivity in rocks, determined by pressurized injection of water through a bore hole driven through the rock. One Lugeon (Lu) is equivalent to one litre of water per minute, injected into 1 metre of borehole at an injection pressure of 10 atmospheres.

Marc Birkigt was a Swiss engineer, automotive and aviation pioneer, and co-founder of Hispano-Suiza in 1904.