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Famous People Who Died in December 1953

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  • Dec 2 Ernie Hayes, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Surrey CCC, Leicestershire CCC), dies at 77
  • Dec 2 Francis Picabia, French avante-garde artist, writer and typographist (Amorous Parade), dies at 74
  • Dec 2 Reginald "Snowy" Baker, Australian boxer (Olympic silver middleweight 1908), rugby union halfback (2 caps) and actor (The Sword of Valor), dies at 69
  • Dec 2 Walter "Doc" Meanwell, English Basketball Hall of Fame coach (University of Wisconsin 1911–1917, 1920–1934), dies at 69
  • Dec 4 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer (Chanticker), dies at 80
  • Dec 5 Jorge Negrete [Moreno], Mexican singer and actor (The Rebel, La madrina del diablo), dies of hepatitis at 42
  • Dec 6 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48
  • Dec 10 Abdullah Yusuf Ali, British-Indian Islamic scholar and translator (translated Qu'ran into English), dies at 81
  • Dec 11 Albert Coates, English conductor and composer (Eagle; Pickwick), dies at 78
  • Dec 14 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (The Yearling), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 57
  • Dec 15 Ed Barrow, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1918 Boston Red Sox) and executive (10 x World Series NY Yankees), dies at 85
  • Dec 15 Kishio Hirao, Japanese composer, dies at 46

Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953)

Dec 19 American physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923), dies at 85

Robert A. Millikan
  • Dec 19 Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies
  • Dec 20 Henry Horatio Dixon, Irish Biologist who originated the cohesion-tension theory of water and mineral movement in plants, dies at 84

Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1953)

Dec 23 Soviet politician and head of the NKVD secret service, executed after being ousted from power at 54

Lavrentiy Beria
  • Dec 24 Ralph Linton, American cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture), dies at 60
  • Dec 25 Lee Shubert, American theatre producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him), dies at about 80
  • Dec 25 Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington Sens, Brooklyn Superbas, Boston RS), dies at 88
  • Dec 27 Julian Tuwim, Polish poet and lyricist, dies at 59
  • Dec 29 Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
  • Dec 31 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer and founder (KLM), dies at 64


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