Birth Chart and Horoscope of 1953 deaths
- Abel Santamaría
- Alex James (footballer)
- Alf Haynes
- Alfred Jäck
- Ambrosio Guillen
- Angel Figueroa (boxer)
- Archduke of Austria Karl Pius
- Bert Andrews (journalist)
- Bertil Carlsson (skier)
- Big Maceo Merriweather
- Bill Tate (boxer)
- Bob Iverson
- Bob Wilder
- Bobby Gibb
- Bode Thomas
- Carolina Slim
- Charles F. Pendleton
- Charles H. Barker
- Charlie Whitely
- Chet Miller
- Cookie Tackwell
- Daniel D. Schoonover
- Daniel P. Matthews
- Denys Wilcox
- Derek Bentley case
- Derek William Bentley
- Django Reinhardt
- Don Brennan (baseball)
- Don Graham (rugby league)
- Dylan Thomas
- Ernest Pagano
- Ethel Rosenberg
- Everett Brown
- Fabián Velasco
- Felice Bonetto
- Felix Moncla
- Francis C. Hammond
- Frank McPherson
- Frank Olson
- Fred West (footballer, born 1905)
- Frederick Volkert
- Fritz Steuri Jr.
- G.R. Aldo
- Georges Hamacek
- Gilbert G. Collier
- Giulio Stival
- Gordon Kirkland (coach)
- Hank Williams
- Hans Fritzsche
- Harold Warrender
- Helene Mayer
- Henri Couttet
- Hérib Campos Cervera
- Indra Bahadur Khare
- Infanta María de las Mercedes of Spain (1911–1953)
- Infanta of Spain María de las Mercedes
- Ioan Suciu
- István Sándor
- J. C. C. McKinsey
- Jack Vidler
- Jacob Parsons
- James Hart Wyld
- Jan Kalicki
- Jean Marco
- Jim Tabor
- John William King
- John Horne Burns
- Jorge Negrete
- Julia de Burgos
- Kiki de Montparnasse
- Lavington Smith
- Lee Dixon (actor)
- Leslie Graham
- Lester Horton
- Lloyd C. Hawks
- Lorentz Brinch
- Lou McEvoy
- Madame le Corbeau
- Manoelzinho
- Marcel Lepan
- Masauji Hachisuka
- Mike Dejan
- Millard Mitchell
- Norman Brooks (swimmer)
- Oliver Brown (footballer)
- Oliver Copestake
- Otto Linher
- Owen Roberts (aviator)
- Ox DaGrosa
- Pauline Robinson Bush
- Prince of Japan Yasuhito
- Princess of Orléans (1902) Françoise
- Richard E. Ellsworth
- Richard Latham
- Richard Thomas Shea
- Roland K. Bernard
- Ronald Maddison
- Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Sammy Meston
- Sigfred Johansen
- Sven Johansson (canoeist)
- Tom Cole (racing driver)
- Tsumasaburō Bandō
- U Jeong-hwan
- Werner Baumbach
- William Alvah Stewart
- William Tubbs
- Willie Love
- Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu