Editing 1953 (section)

===March===
[[File:Joseph Stalin, 1950.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Stalin]]]]
[[File:K Gottwald.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Klement Gottwald]]]]
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Jim Lightbody]], American middle-distance runner (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[James J. Jeffries]], American boxing champion (b. [[1875]])
* [[March 5]]
** [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]], American writer and producer (b. [[1897]])
** [[Sergei Prokofiev]], Soviet and Russian composer (b. [[1891]])
** [[Joseph Stalin]], Soviet leader (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Edward Sedgwick]], American director (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Johan Laidoner]], Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. [[1884]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Klement Gottwald]], 5th [[List of presidents of Czechoslovakia|President of Czechoslovakia]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Carl Stockdale]], American actor (b. [[1874]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Graciliano Ramos]], Brazilian writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Toni Wolff]], Swiss psychoanalyst (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Gustav Herglotz]], German mathematician (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Herglotz/|title=Gustav Herglotz – Biography|website=Maths History}}</ref>
* [[March 23]]
** [[Raoul Dufy]], French painter (b. [[1875]])
** [[Oskar Luts]], Estonian writer and playwright (b. [[1887]])
* [[March 24]]
** [[Mary of Teck]], consort of [[George V|George V of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1867]])
** [[Paul Couturier]], French priest (b. [[1881]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Jim Thorpe]], Native-American athlete, Olympic medalist and professional baseball player (b. [[1887]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Ivan Lebedeff]], Russian actor (b. [[1895]])