Death year 1953 celebrities

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Death year 1953

David Milne Facts

David Milne, (January 8, 1882 – December 26, 1953) was a Canadian painter, printmaker, and writer.

Jean Epstein Facts

Jean Epstein (March 25, 1897 – April 2, 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Epstein directed

Roy Patterson Facts

Roy Lewis Patterson (December 17, 1876 – April 14, 1953) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed “The Boy Wonder,” he played for the Chicago White Sox from 1901 to 1907.

Vera Mukhina Facts

Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (Russian: Ве́ра Игна́тьевна Му́хина; Latvian: Vera Muhina; 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1889 in Riga – 6 October 1953 in Moscow) was a prominent Soviet sculptor.

Pete Scott Facts

Floyd John “Pete” Scott (December 21, 1897 – May 3, 1953) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball.

Robert Andrews Millikan Facts

Robert A. Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Pierre Humbert Facts

Pierre Humbert (13 June 1891, Paris – 17 November 1953, Paris) was a French mathematician who worked on the theory of elliptic functions and introduced Humbert polynomials. He was the son of the mathematician Georges Humbert and married the daughte

Joe Harris Facts

Joe Harris (January 11, 1870 – June 11, 1953) was an American actor, who between 1913 and 1923 appeared in at least 94 silent films, many of them cowboy westerns. He often played villains opposite early cowboy star Harry Carey.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen Facts

Friedrich-Wilhelm Oskar Sigismund Deodat von Rothkirch und Panthen (16 February 1884 – 24 December 1953) was a Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II and recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded by Nazi Germany to re

Charlie Maisel Facts

Charles Louis Maisel (April 21, 1894 in Catonsville, Maryland – August 25, 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland), was a Major League Baseball player for the Federal League Baltimore Terrapins. He was a cousin to fellow Major League Baseball players Fritz Ma

Lee Dixon Facts

Lee Dixon (January 22, 1914 – January 8, 1953) was an actor in 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in Hollywood musicals and other films, as well as on the Broadway stage.

Eduard Künneke Facts

Eduard Künneke (also seen as Edward and spelled Künnecke) (27 January 1885 – 27 October 1953) was a German composer of operettas, operas and theatre music. He was born in Emmerich. His daughter was the actress and singer Evelyn Künneke.