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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1953</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1953 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000205547/">Maude Adams</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>Stage actress, Peter Pan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/547/000205929/">Fred E. Ahlert</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000348324/">Mary Anderson</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the windshield wiper</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000177414/">Ed Barrow</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Yankees General Manager, 1920-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/160/000179620/">Arnold Bax</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Symphonist, Tone Poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000085153/">Hilaire Belloc</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>The Bad Child's Book of Beasts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/722/000160242/">Lavrenty Beria</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000031594/">Nigel Bruce</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Played Rathbone's Dr. Watson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000062917/">Ivan Bunin</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Russian short story writer, Light Breathing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/475/000173953/">Jesse Burkett</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1953</tt></td> <td>The Crab, MLB Hall of Famer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000159395/">Robin Bush</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>George W. Bush sister, died at age four</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/357/000054195/">Jesse Martin Combs</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jul-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1953</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Texas, 1945-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000116541/">Ruth Porter Crawford</a></td> <td><center>Musicologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Composer, musical ethnologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000114165/">George Creel</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Head of the Committee on Public Information</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/683/000205068/">Jan Czochralski</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1953</tt></td> <td>Czochralski Process</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000278855/">Lee Dixon</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td>Ready, Willing and Able</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/927/000084675/">Raoul Dufy</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>French Fauvist painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/552/000031459/">Edmund Dulac</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1953</tt></td> <td>Children's book illustrator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/402/000131009/">James Finlayson</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>D'oh!</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/846/000209219/">William L. Frierson</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1953</tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1920-21</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000087640/">Hans Fritzsche</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1953</tt></td> <td>Reich minister of radio propaganda</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000078742/">Porter Hall</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Going My Way</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/924/000163435/">Hjalmar Hammarskjöld</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Sweden, 1914-17</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/673/000036565/">Edwin Hubble</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1953</tt></td> <td>Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/456/000169946/">Herbert E. Ives</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Facsimile machine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000174228/">Moses E. Kiley</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1953</tt></td> <td>Archbishop of Milwaukee, 1940-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000165523/">James L. Kraft</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Feb-1953</tt></td> <td>Inventor of processed cheese</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/761/000118407/">Robert M. La Follette, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000135722/">Ivan Lebedeff</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>Russian-American character actor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/140/000170627/">Armin O. Leuschner</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1953</tt></td> <td>Astronomer at Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/152/000119792/">Ralph Linton</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>The Study of Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000280262/">Chris-Pin Martin</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>The Ox-Bow Incident</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000347391/">Mary of Teck</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>Queen Mary, Consort of George V</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/039/000210406/">Daniel T. McCarty</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1953</tt></td> <td>Governor of Florida, 1953</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000119670/">Charles E. Merriam</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td>American Political Ideas</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000091498/">Robert A. Millikan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Determined the charge of an electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000135982/">Millard Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>My Six Convicts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000279117/">Iris Morley</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>A Thousand Lives</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/319/000022253/">Eugene O'Neill</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Long Day's Journey Into Night</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/109/000196518/">Francis Picabia</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Cubist, Dadaist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/184/000114839/">Walter B. Pitkin</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td>Life Begins at Forty</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000113678/">Ludwig Prandtl</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1953</tt></td> <td>Father of Aerodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/876/000057705/">Sergei Prokofiev</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>Peter and the Wolf</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/056/000113714/">Vsevolod Pudovkin</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>Mother</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000107549/">Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>The Yearling</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/511/000172992/">David A. Reed</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-35</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/467/000051314/">Django Reinhardt</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1953</tt></td> <td>Gypsy jazz guitarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/701/000205086/">Irving Reis</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/526/000088262/">Ethel Rosenberg</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/523/000088259/">Julius Rosenberg</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/240/000133838/">King Ibn Saud</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Founder of Saudi Arabia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000166553/">Clarence Saunders</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1953</tt></td> <td>Father of modern retailing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/157/000164662/">James Scullin</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Australia, 1929-32</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000174252/">Edward Sedgwick</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>The Cameraman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000210419/">David Sholtz</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>Governor of Florida, 1933-37</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000205666/">Lee Shubert</a></td> <td><center>Theatre Producer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Broke the Erlanger theater syndicate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000206249/">Albert Spalding</a></td> <td><center>Violinist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1953</tt></td> <td>American violin virtuoso</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000024346/">Josef Stalin</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>Brutal dictator, Soviet Union</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/981/000101678/">Lewis Stone</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1953</tt></td> <td>Judge James Hardy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000054860/">Robert A. Taft</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000084673/">Vladimir Tatlin</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1953</tt></td> <td>Monument to the Third International</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000279692/">Godfrey Tearle</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>The 39 Steps</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000024416/">Dylan Thomas</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Most influential Welsh poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/699/000026621/">Jim Thorpe</a></td> <td><center>Football</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td>Olympics and football</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000173353/">Bill Tilden</a></td> <td><center>Tennis</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1953</tt></td> <td>Winner of 21 Grand Slam titles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000206741/">Charles W. Tobey</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from New Hampshire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000167767/">Maurice J. Tobin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Labor, 1948-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000054861/">Fred Vinson</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1953</tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice, 1946-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000087926/">Gerd von Rundstedt</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1953</tt></td> <td>German Field Marshall</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/338/000044206/">Robert F. Wagner, Sr.</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator from New York, 1927-49</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/626/000117275/">Jonathan M. Wainwright</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1953</tt></td> <td>Commander of the Philippines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/301/000055136/">George White</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Governor of Ohio, 1931-35</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/876/000062690/">Hank Williams, Sr.</a></td> <td><center>Country Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td>Take These Chains From My Heart</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000243473/">Dooley Wilson</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1953</tt></td> <td>Sam in Casablanca</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/598/000168094/">George A. 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