List of Famous people who died in 1953

Chris-Pin Martin was an American character actor whose specialty lay in portraying comical Mexicans, particularly sidekicks in The Cisco Kid film series. He acted in over 100 films between 1925 and 1953, including over 50 westerns.

Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky was a Moldavian and Soviet chemist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1929).

Étienne Balsan was born in Paris, France, as Fulcran Étienne Balsan.

Samuel Alfred De Grasse was a Canadian actor.

Osip Naumovich Abdulov was a Soviet actor.

Tsumasaburō "Bantsuma" Bandō was one of the most prominent Japanese actors of the twentieth century. Famous for his rebellious, sword fighting roles in many jidaigeki silent films, he rose to fame after joining the Tōjiin Studio of Makino Film Productions in Kyoto in 1923.

Richard Rosson was an American film director and actor. As an actor, he was known for the nearly 100 films he was in during the silent era. As a director, he was a co-director of the 1932 film Scarface.

Sergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept.