Months in Year 1953: January February March May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 48 of 48
Jan 1st - Hank Williams,
country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
Jan 8th - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid,
composer, dies at 78
Jan 10th - Theo Mackeben,
German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56
Jan 12th - Simeon Roncal,
composer, dies at 82
Jan 15th - Viktor Patrick Vretblad,
composer, dies at 76
Feb 2nd - Gustav Strube,
composer, dies at 85
Feb 25th - Jesus Garcia Leoz,
composer, dies at 49
Feb 26th - Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper,
Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies
Mar 4th - Sergei S Prokoviev,
Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
Mar 5th - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev,
Ukrainian composer, dies at 61
Mar 17th - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta,
composer, dies at 73
Mar 26th - Albert Spalding,
composer, dies at 64
Mar 27th - Narciso Garay,
composer, dies at 76
Mar 30th - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar,
composer, dies at 75
May 4th - Thomas Tertius Noble,
composer, dies at 85
May 16th - Django Reinhardt,
Belgian musician (b. 1910)
May 17th - Eric De Lamarter,
composer, dies at 73
May 22nd - Vaclav Klicka,
composer, dies at 70
May 30th - Dooley Wilson,
American musician and actor (b. 1886)
Jun 10th - Grzlegorz Fitelberg,
composer, dies at 73
Jun 17th - Walter Niemann,
composer, dies at 76
Jun 29th - Jules van Nuffel,
composer, dies at 70
Jun 30th - Gote Carlid,
composer, dies at 32
Jul 10th - Sidney Homer,
composer, dies at 88
Jul 12th - Joseph Jongen,
Belgian composer, dies at 79
Jul 12th - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
Jul 17th - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer,
composer, dies at 65
Aug 13th - Dmitri Arakishvili,
composer, dies at 80
Aug 27th - Nicolai Berezowsky,
composer, dies at 53
Aug 30th - Dimiter Nenov,
composer, dies at 51
Sep 15th - Jacques Thibaud,
French violinist, dies
Sep 17th - Henry Holden Huss,
composer, dies at 91
Sep 21st - Roger Quilter,
British composer, dies at 75
Oct 3rd - Arnold Bax,
British composer, dies at 69
Oct 3rd - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Brit composer (Coronation March), dies at 69
Oct 3rd - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
Oct 8th - Kathleen Ferrier,
English alto singer, dies at 41
Oct 18th - Federico Gerdes,
composer, dies at 80
Oct 24th - Ernest Irving,
composer, dies at 74
Oct 27th - Zdzislaw Jachimecki,
composer, dies at 71
Oct 29th - William Kapell,
American pianist (b. 1922)
Nov 4th - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,
composer, dies at 89
Nov 6th - John Parsons Beach,
composer, dies at 76
Nov 21st - Larry Shields,
American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
Nov 24th - George Alexander Russell,
composer, dies at 73
Dec 4th - Daniel Gregory Mason,
composer, dies at 80
Dec 5th - Jorge Negrete,
Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
Dec 15th - Kishio Hirao,
composer, dies at 46
