Famous people died in 1953

Django Reinhardt was one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century

Ivan Bunin was an eminent Russian poet and novelist and the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a renowned American playwright

King Abdulaziz al-Saud was the first monarch of Saudi Arabia

Emanuel Vidovic was a Croatian painter and graphic artist

Syama Prasad Mookerjee was an Indian politician who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh party

Edwin Powell Hubble was one of the world’s most famous astronomers of the 20th century

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century

Lavrentiy Beria was a Soviet politician who served as the Marshal of the Soviet Union