List of Famous people who died in 1953

Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

James Hurd Hughes was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.

Sir Leopold Halliday Savile, KCB was a Scottish civil engineer.

Capt. The Hon. Eric Brand Butler-Henderson was the seventh child of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, and the great-grandfather of Vicki and Charlie Butler-Henderson. He was a soldier and company director, who was honoured when a steam locomotive was named after him.

Margarete Slezak was an Austro-German singer and actress. She was the sister of the actor Walter Slezak.

Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them. He is also noted for his pioneering work concerning fractals and a method for solving a system of linear equations known as modified Richardson iteration.