List of Famous people who died in 1953

Maria Loja (1890–1953) was a German stage and film actress.

Hulda Martha Arendsee was a German politician (KPD) and women's rights activist.

Boris Kidrič was a Slovene politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. He became the de facto leader of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. As such, he had a crucial role in the anti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. After World War II he was, together with Edvard Kardelj, a leading Slovenian politician in communist Yugoslavia.

Albert Plesman was a Dutch pioneer in aviation and the first administrator and later director of the KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name. Until his death, he was in charge as CEO for over 35 years and was also on the board of the Dutch airline, which was to become one of the most important airlines in the world under his leadership.

Roger Cuthbert Quilter was an English composer, known particularly for his art songs.

Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm, KCB, DSO was a British Army officer who served as Chief of Staff to Fifth Army in the First World War and later commanded the Troops in the Straits Settlements.

Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh, K.C.M.G. was a British colonial administrator.

James Lewis Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor. Kraft was the first to patent processed cheese.