1953
- July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
- July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
- August 11 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (b. 1892)
- August 15 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
- August 22 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
- August 25 - Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (b. 1880)
- September 2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
- September 8 - Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890)
- September 12 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- September 26 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
- September 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
- October 3 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
- October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
- October 11 - Robin Bush, younger sister of President George Walker Bush (b. 1949)
- October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
- October 27 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- November 8 - John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883)
- November 9
- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
- King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
- November 21 - Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893)
- November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- November 29
- Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875)
- Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
- November 30 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
- December 18 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
- December 31 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - Frits (Frederik) Zernike
- Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger
- Medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
- Literature - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- Peace - George Catlett Marshall
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