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1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar).

Events of 1954
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May · June · July · Aug. ·
Sept. · Oct. · Nov. · Dec. ·
Undated · Ongoing
Births
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Nobel Prizes · Fields Medalists
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Events of 1954

January

January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio.

January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from East Germany.
January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200.
January 14 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.
January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties.
January 20
- The coldest day ever recorded in the contiguous United States at −56.5 °C (−70 °F).
- The U.S.-based National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.
January 25 – The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.

February

February 3 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first reigning monarch to visit Australia.
February 10 – After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to Vietnam, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
February 23 – The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
February 25 – Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt.

March

March 1
- U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five; they are apprehended by security guards.
March 9 – American journalists Edward Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
March 12 – Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.
March 13 – French troops begin the battle against the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu.
March 19 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in color.
March 23 – In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated.
March 25
- The 26th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
- RCA manufactures the first color TV set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000).
- The Soviet Union recognizes the sovereignty of East Germany but Soviet troops remain in the country.
March 27 – The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed.
March 28 – Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting.
March 29 – A C-47 transport with the French nurse Genevieve de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.
March 30 – The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto, Ontario.

April

April 1 – The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado
April 1 – South Point School (India) was founded that would grow to the largest school in the world by 1992.
April 3 – Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in Australia.
April 4 – The legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.
April 7 – Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
April 14 – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's "shadow cabinet".
April 14 – A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled.
April 16 – Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support.”
April 22 – Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.

May

May 1 – The Unification Church is founded in South Korea.
May 4 – General Alfredo Stroessner seizes power in a coup d'état in Paraguay.
May 6 – Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile.
May 7 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
May 14 – The Boeing 707 is released after about two years of development.
May 15 – Latin Union (Unión Latina) created by Convention of Madrid, member countries belong to the five Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian.
May 17
- Brown v. Board of Education (347 US 483 1954): The United States Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional.
- The Petrov Royal Commission in Australia begins its inquiry.
- Adnan Menderes of DP forms the new government of Turkey (21th government)
May 20 – Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.
May 22 – The common Nordic Labour Market act is signed.
May 29 – Robert Menzies's government is re-elected for a 4th term in Australia.

June

June 9 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army, saying, 'Have you, at long last, no decency?'.
June 14 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
June 15 – The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
June 17 – A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala.
June 18 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes prime minister of France.
June 27
- Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.
- The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.

July

July 1
- The Common Nordic Labor Market Act comes into effect.
- The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 meters.
July 4
- Food rationing in Great Britain ends with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II and nearly a decade after the war's end.
- West Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
July 10 Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.
July 15
- The maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), the prototype of the Boeing 707 series.
- Juan Fangio, the Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes Benz, made a new fastest lap of the Silverstone with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph.
July 21 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of Vietnam by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment de facto regimes of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War.

August

August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following an epileptic seizure at Sainte Agathe, Quebec. She was the first of the five to perish, and three of them lived into the 21st Century.
August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States.
August 24 – The Brazilian president, Getulio Vargas, commits suicide after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder a Brazilian Air Force officer.

September

September 3 – The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio, after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
September 6 – The SEATO treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines.
September 8 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.
September 9 – An earthquake centered on the city of Orleansville, Algeria kills 1,500 and leaves thousands homeless.
September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.
September 14 – The USSR tests a nuclear weapon.
September 25 – The Footscray Football Club wins their first Grand Final.
September 26 – The Japanese ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed.
September 30 – The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, is commissioned by the United States Navy.

October

October 11
- Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
- Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000.
October 15 – Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina.
October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the development of the first transistor radio.
October 20 – A dock workers' strike expands in England.
October 21 – Max and Ruby make their first debut in "Max and the Big White Thing".
October 23 – West Germany joins NATO.
October 23 – WEU founded.
October 25 – Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300.
October 26 – Muslim Brotherhood member Mahmoud Abdul Latif tries to kill Gamal Abdal Nasser.
October 31 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

November

November 1 – The FLN attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power.
November 2 – The dock workers' strike in England ends.
November 3- The first Godzilla movie premieres in Tokyo, Japan.
November 5 – Japan and Burma sign a separate peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their formal state of war.
November 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
November 12 – The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes.
November 14 – Egyptian president Mohammed Naguib is deposed; Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him.
November 22 – The United States Supreme Court decides the landmark case Berman v. Parker (348 U.S. 26), upholding the federal slum clearance and urban renewal program.
November 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86%, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its 1929 peak level reached just before that year's crash.
November 30 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.

December

December 1 The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens. It is the first hotel in the world built outside of an airport.
December 2
- Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67–22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- The Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty is signed. [1]
December 4 – The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida, USA.
December 24 – Laos gains full independence from France.

Undated

New Zealand inventor Sir William Hamilton invents the world's first water pump-jet engine, later named the "Hamilton Jet".
The first successful kidney transplant is done in Boston, Massachusetts - from one identical twin to his brother, which was the only possibility for avoiding organ rejection at that time. All previous and contemperoneous attempts were doomed by rejection.
The Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race.
Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus) are brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.
The case of Lothar Malskat, who had admitted that he had painted the supposedly antique frescoes in Marienkirche himself, goes to trial.
The TV dinner is introduced by the American entrepreneur Gerry Thomas.
The New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine's production of The Nutcracker is staged for the first time in New York City, and it became a tradition there, still being performed annually as of 2008.
South Korea opens the Gimpo International Airport.
The novel Lord of the Flies is published.

Births

**1954 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1954 MCMLIV
Ab urbe condita	2707
Armenian calendar	1403 ԹՎ ՌՆԳ
Bahá'í calendar	110 – 111
Bengali calendar	1361
Berber calendar	2904
Buddhist calendar	2498
Burmese calendar	1316
Byzantine calendar	7462 – 7463
Chinese calendar	癸巳年十一月廿七日 (4590/4650-11-27) — to — 甲午年十二月初七日 (4591/4651-12-7)
Coptic calendar	1670 – 1671
Ethiopian calendar	1946 – 1947
Hebrew calendar	5714 – 5715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2009 – 2010
- Shaka Samvat	1876 – 1877
- Kali Yuga	5055 – 5056
Holocene calendar	11954
Iranian calendar	1332 – 1333
Islamic calendar	1373 – 1374
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 29 (昭和29年)
Korean calendar	4287
Thai solar calendar	2497

January

January 2 – Henry Bonilla, American politician
January 3 – Jim Ross, American wrestling commentator
January 4 – Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott, English professional poker player
January 5 – Alex English, American basketball player
January 6 – Anthony Minghella, British film and theatre director (d. 2008)
January 7 – José María Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist.
January 12 – Howard Stern, American radio host
January 13 – Trevor Rabin, South African–American musician
January 14
- Tom Cheney, American cartoonist
- Masanobu Fuchi, Japanese professional wrestler
January 15 – Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
January 17 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Robert F Kennedy
January 19
- Katey Sagal, American actress and singer (Married...with Children)
- Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler
January 22 – Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
January 23
- Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
- Edward Ka-Spel, British/Dutch rock vocalist (The Legendary Pink Dots)
January 29
- Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show hostess, producer, and publisher
- Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist

February

February 1 – Bill Mumy, American actor and musician (Lost In Space)
February 2 – Christie Brinkley, American model
February 7 – Dieter Bohlen, German singer
February 9
- Chris Gardner, American entrepreneur
- Kevin Warwick, English cybernetic scientist
February 11 – Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
February 12 – Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
February 13 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
February 15 – Matt Groening, American cartoonist
February 17 – Rene Russo, American actress
February 18 – John Travolta, American actor (Saturday Night Fever)
February 19 – Socrates, Brazilian footballer
February 20
- Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
- Patty Hearst, American heiress and kidnapping victim
February 23 – Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
February 25 – Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager

March

March 1 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, producer (Happy Days)
March 2 – Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player
March 4
- François Fillon, Prime Minister of France
- Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress (SCTV)
- Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer
- Willie Thorne, English snooker player
March 6 – Harald Schumacher, German football goalkeeper
March 8 – David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
March 9 – Bobby Sands, Irish Republican, Long Kesh hunger striker (d. 1981)
March 13 – The Baroness Amos, British politician
March 16 – Nancy Wilson, American singer, musician, and actress
March 17 – Lesley-Anne Down, British actress
March 18 – James F. Reilly, American astronaut
March 19 – Indu Shahani, Indian educator and Sheriff of Mumbai
March 23 – Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach
March 24 – Robert Carradine, American actor
March 26 – Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
March 29 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

April

April 1 – Dieter Muller, German soccer player
April 2 – Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese musician
April 5 – Guy Bertrand (broadcaster), Canadian linguist and radio personality
April 7
- Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born actor
- Tony Dorsett, American football player
April 8 – John Schneider, American actor (Dukes of Hazzard)
April 9
- Dennis Quaid, American actor
- Steve Holt, Canadian musician
April 10 – Anacani, Mexican-born American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show)
April 14 – Bruce Sterling, American science fiction writer
April 16 – Ellen Barkin, American actress
April 17 – Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver
April 27 – Ray Shaw, Australian rules footballer
April 29
- Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
- Jake Burton Carpenter, American founder of Burton Snowboards

May

May 1 – Archie Norman, British politician and businessman
May 1 – Ray Parker, Jr. African-American musician, singer-songwriter, composer (Raydio)
May 7
- Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
- Amy Heckerling, American film director
May 8 – Gary Wilmot British entertainer
May 19 – Phil Rudd, Australian rock drummer (AC/DC)
May 22 – Shuji Nakamura, Japanese electronics engineer
May 26 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)
May 27 – Pauline Hanson, Australian politician

June

June 5 – Nancy Stafford, American actress and Christian author
June 9 – John Hagelin, American physicist and U.S. Presidential candidate
June 9 – Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada
June 15 – James Belushi, American actor (Saturday Night Live)
June 16 – Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d. 1996)
June 19
- Ted Coombs, American artist
- Kathleen Turner, American actress
June 20
- Michael Anthony, American rock bassist (Van Halen)
- Ilan Ramon, Israeli Air Force, Israel's first astronaut (d. 2003)
June 22 – Freddie Prinze,Sr., American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
June 26 – Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
June 27 – Ron Kirk, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
June 28 – Ava Barber, American country singer (The Lawrence Welk Show)
June 29 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach
June 30 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)

July

July 5 – John Wright, New Zealand cricket captain
July 6 – Willie Randolph, American baseball player, coach, manager
July 10 – Neil Tennant, British musician
July 13 – Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
July 15
- Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
- Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
July 16 – Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
July 17
- Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
- J. Michael Straczynski, American author
- Eduardo Romero, Argentine golfer
July 22 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
July 24 – Jorge Jesus, Portuguese football player and coach
July 25 – Walter Payton, African-American football player (d. 1999)
July 27 – Lynne Frederick, British actress (d. 1994)
July 27 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver
July 28 – Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President

August

August 1 – Michael J. Badnarik, American software engineer and presidential candidate
August 2 – Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
August 4
- Uwe Wittwer, Swiss artist
- François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer
August 11 – Joe Jackson, British rock singer (Steppin' Out)
August 12
- Sam J. Jones, American actor
- Pat Metheny, American jazz guitarist
August 13 – Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player
August 14 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (d.2009)
August 16 – James Cameron, Canadian-born film director
August 17 – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian-Irish writer
August 20 – Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey, music video producer (d. 2007)
August 20 – Al Roker, African-American television broadcaster (Today)
August 21 – Ivan Stang, American author and publisher
August 21 – Steve Smith, American drummer
August 23 – Charles Busch, American director, writer, and actor
August 24 – Philippe Cataldo, French singer
August 25 – Elvis Costello, British singer-songwriter
August 29 – István Cserháti, Hungarian keyboardist (d. 2005)
August 31
- Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
- Caroline Cossey, English model

September

September 1 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
September 10 – Mark W. Everson, incoming President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross
September 13 – Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
September 17 – Joël-François Durand, French composer
September 18 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
September 21 – Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
September 26 – Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager and television host
September 28 – Steve Largent, American football player and congressman
September 30 – Barry Williams, American actor

October

October 1 – Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
October 3
- Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
- Al Sharpton, African-American politician and minister
- Eddie DeGarmo, American Christian guitarist and producer (DeGarmo and Key)
October 5 – Wayne Watson, American Christian musician
October 7 – Robert A. Schuller, American televangelist and son of Robert H. Schuller
October 9
- Scott Bakula, American television actor
- John O'Hurley, American television actor and game show host
October 10
- David Lee Roth, American rock singer
- Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor
October 12 – Les Dennis, English television presenter and actor
October 13 – Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician, convicted of treason and espionage by Israel and imprisoned for mny years.
October 15
- Tanya Roberts, American actress
- Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
October 23 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director
October 24
- Mike Rounds, Governor of South Dakota
- Doug Davidson, American actor

November

November 2 – Angela Webber, Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian (d. 2007)
November 3
- Brigitte Lin, Taiwanese actress
- Adam Ant, English singer
- Kathy Kinney, American actress and comedienne
November 7 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
November 8
- Michael D. Brown, U.S. Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British author
November 13 – Chris Noth, American actor
November 14
- Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
- Yanni, Greek musician
- Willie Hernández, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
November 15 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
November 16 – Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004)
November 23 – Bruce Hornsby, American rock singer (That's Just The Way It Is)
November 26 – Dan Kwong, American performance artist, playwright
November 27 – Patricia McPherson, American actress
November 29 – Joel Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor

December

December 1 – Bob Goen, American television personality and game show host
December 2 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist (NBC Dateline)
December 3 – Grace Andreacchi, American author
December 7 – Mark Hofmann, American forger and murderer
December 10 – Jack Hues, English musician
December 11
- Jermaine Jackson, American singer
- Prachanda, Nepalese Communist leader
December 13 – John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
December 14
- Ib Andersen, Danish dancer
- Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
December 18 – Ulrich Roth, German rock guitarist (Scorpions)
December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American writer
December 21 – Chris Evert, American tennis player
December 24 – José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician, President 1994–1998
December 25 – Annie Lennox, British rock singer (Eurythmics)
December 26 – Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racer (d. 2006)
December 28
- Denzel Washington, African-American actor
- Lanny Poffo, American professional wrestler
December 31 – Alex Salmond, Scottish politician

Deaths

January–June

January 5 – Lillian Rich, English actress (b. 1900)
January 11 – Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
January 18 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
January 20 – Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
January 30 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian theater director and producer (b. 1886)
January 31
- Edwin Armstrong, American electrical engineer (b. 1890)
- Florence Bates, American actress (b. 1888)
February 8 – Laurence Trimble, American actor (b. 1885)
February 12 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist (murdered) (b. 1892)
February 9 – Mabel Paige, American actress (b. 1880)
February 21 – William K. Howard, American film director (b. 1899)
March 7
- Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879)
March 9 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
March 26 – Louis Silvers, American film composer (b. 1889)
April 8 – Fritzi Scheff, actress & singer (b. 1879)
April 10 – Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)
April 12 – Luis Cabrera Lobato, Mexican lawyer, politician and writer (b. 1876)
April 13 – Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (b. 1890)
April 17 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. 1900)
April 28 – Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
April 29 – Joe May, Austrian-born director (b. 1880)
May 1 – Tom Tyler, American actor (b. 1903)
May 3 – Józef Garbień, Polish footballer and physician (b. 1896)
May 6 – B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (b. 1880)
May 14 – Heinz Guderian, German World War II general (b. 1888)
May 15 – William March, American writer and soldier (b. 1893)
May 19 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
May 25 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
June 7 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
June 22 – Don Hollenbeck, American newscaster (b. 1905)

July–December

July 1 – Thea von Harbou, German actress (b. 1888)
July 3 – Reginald Marsh, American artist (b. 1898)
July 6 – Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian producer and director (b. 1894)
July 11 – Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859)
July 13
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
- Irving Pichel, American actor and director (b. 1891)
- Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (b. 1880)
July 14
- Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
- Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
July 17 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
July 28 – Kamiyama Sojin or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the American silent film era, (b. 1884)
July 29 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
August 3
- Bess Streeter Aldrich, American writer (b. 1881)
- Colette, French novelist (b. 1873)
August 24 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
September 3 – Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889)
September 5 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
September 7
- Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
- Glenn Scobey Warner, American college football coach (b. 1871)
September 21 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)
September 24 – Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide) (b. 1904)
September 28 – Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885)
October 30 – Wilbur Shaw, American racing driver (b. 1902)
November 3 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
November 15 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
November 16 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (b. 1874)
November 17 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
November 21 – Roderick McMahon, Boxing and Wrestling promoter also founder of what is now wwe (b.1880)
November 22
- Moroni Olsen, American actor (b. 1889)
- Andrey Vyshinsky, Russian jurist and diplomat (b. 1883)
November 28 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
November 29 – Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
November 30 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
December 1 – Fred Rose, American songwriter (b. 1898)
December 8
- Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (b. 1894)
- Gladys George, American actress (b. 1900)
December 20 – James Hilton, English novelist (b. 1900)
December 23 – René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
December 30 – Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)

Ship events

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Max Born, Walther Bothe
Chemistry – Linus Carl Pauling
Medicine – John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
Literature – Ernest Hemingway
Peace – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Fields Medalists

Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre

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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957

1954 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Marriages - Deaths - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1954

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^.

2 Births

3 Deaths - Ship events

4 Nobel Prizes - Fields Medalists

5 See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1954

January

January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio.

January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany.
January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Austria - over 20 dead.
January 13 - Yangtze River ran dry
January 14
- The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.
January 15 - Mau Mau lleader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
January 17 - In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, Tito's second-in-command, is relieved of his duties.
January 20 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
January 21 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, by First Lady of the United States Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.
January 26 - Milpitas, California was incorporated as a city.

February

February 3 - Queen Elizabeth II is the first reigning monarch to visit Australia.
February 10 - After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to Vietnam, President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
February 18 - The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
February 23 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh and helps to save the lives of innumerable children.
February 25 - Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.

March

March 1
- Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- Four Puerto Ricans open fire on United States House of Representatives and wound five. Security guards apprehend them.
March 9 - Edward Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now special entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".
March 12 - Finland and Germany officially end the state of war.
March 13 - French troops begin battle against Vietminh in Dien Bien Phu.
March 19 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
March 22 - The London bullion market reopens (it was closed in 1939).
March 23 - Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu - French forces are partially isolated.
March 25
- RCA manufactures first color TV set (12" screen; price: $1,000).
- Soviet Union recognizes sovereignty of East Germany but Soviet troops remain in the country.
March 28 - The television stations Telemundo - WKAQ-TV is formed in Puerto Rico.
March 29 - C-47 with Genevieve de Galard on board is incapacitated on Dien Bien Phu runway.
March 30 - Canada's first subway opens in Toronto.

April

April - The Fender Stratocaster, one of the best-known guitars of all time, is released.
April 1 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
April 3 - Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks to seek political asylum in Australia.
April 4 - Legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert. At concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.
April 7 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
April 12 - Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City.
April 14 - Aneurin Bevan resigns from the UK Labour shadow cabinet.
April 16 - Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be, quote, “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support.”
April 22 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.

May

May 1 - Taku (city in Japan) is founded.
May 6 - Roger Bannister runs the first four minute mile.
May 7
- Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
- Vietnam War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
May 14 - Boeing 707 released after about two years of development.
May 17
- United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 US 483 1954.
- Petrov Royal Commission in Australia begins its inqury.
May 18 - President Eisenhower today asked for progress reports on coming moves to public school segregation in the District of Columbia.
May 20
- Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty launches Belarusian language programming (see also Piotra Sych).
May 29 - Robert Menzies Government re-elected for 4th term in Australia.

June

June 1 - Radio station Sender Freies Berlin begins broadcasting.
June 7 - Mathematician Alan Turing commits suicide.
June 9 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
June 14 - On United States Flag Day, the words "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
June 15 - UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
June 17 - Military coup occurs in Guatemala.
June 18 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes prime minister of France.
June 19 - The last regular-service streetcar operated by Twin City Rapid Transit runs in Minneapolis.
June 27
- Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup–Operation PBSUCCESS–triggering a bloody civil war that would continue for more than 35 years.
- The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.

July

July 3 - Food rationing ends in Britain.
July 4
- End of rationing of meat - the last form of food rationing in Britain.
- West Germany beat Hungary 3-2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
July 5 - Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
July 7 - In Memphis, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record.
July 15 - Maiden flight of Boeing 707.
July 21 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
July 28 - Foundation of the Situationist International.
July 31 - First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition. Which is celebrated in both Pakistan and Italy as the 50th anniversary of the official day of K2 since 2004.

August

August - First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress.
August 6 - Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following an epileptic seizure at Sainte Agathe, Quebec.
August 16 - Volume 1, Issue 1 of Sports Illustrated is published.
August 24 - President of Brazil, Getulio Vargas, commits suicide; he's been accused of conspiracy to murder an air force officer.

September

September 3 - The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
September 6 - SEATO treaty signed in Manila, Philippines KOVR went on the air.
September 8 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.
September 9 - An earthquake centered on the city of Oleansville in Algeria: 1500 dead and thousands homeless.
September 11 - First Miss America Pageant broadcast on television.
September 14 - USSR tests nuclear weapon.
September 24 - Edward Pilgrim commits suicide hastened by bureaucracy.
September 25 - Footscray Football Club wins their first Grand Final.
September 26 - Japanese ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait killing more than 1,100.
September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy.

October

October 11
- Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
- Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000 people.
October 15 - Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall - it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina.
October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio.
October 20 - Dock workers' strike expands in England.
October 23 - West Germany joins NATO.
October 25 - Disastrous landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy killing some 300 people.
October 26 - Member of Muslim Brotherhood Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf tries to kill Gamal Abdal Nasser.
October 31 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

November

November - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes.
November 1 - The FLN attacks Representative and public buildings of the France colonial power.
November 2 - Dock workers' strike in England ends.
November 3 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.
November 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
November 13 - Don Estes invents the disrupter (a part to help combines work).
November 14
- Egyptian president Mohammed Naguib is deposed - Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him.
- Leonard Bernstein makes his first appearance on television, lecturing on the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the first of his many television music lectures.
November 23 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86%, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its 1929 peak level reached just before that year's crash.
November 30 - In Sylacauga, a 4 kg meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and hits Ann Hodges, badly bruising her, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.

December

December 2
- Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty. [1]
December 24 - Laos becomes independent.

Undated

The first kidney transplants are done in Boston and also in Paris.
The Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race.
Stop signs are changed from black-on-yellow to white-on-red.
Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus), brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.
Unification Church is founded.
Case of Lothar Malskat, who had admitted that he had painted the frescoes in Marienkirche himself, goes into trial.
The TV Dinner is introduced by American, Gerry Thomas.
Foundation of Université de Sherbrooke.
The first complete recordings of all three of Tchaikovsky's ballets, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker are released on LP by Mercury Records, with Antal Dorati conducting the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Korea usev possible Gimpo International Airport.

Ongoing

Marshall Plan

Fictional

The following are references to year 1954 in fiction: Robert A. Heinlein's short story, The Year of the Jackpot takes place in 1954.

Births

**1954 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1954 MCMLIV
Ab urbe condita	2707
Armenian calendar	1403 ԹՎ ՌՆԳ
Bahá'í calendar	110 – 111
Buddhist calendar	2498
Coptic calendar	1670 – 1671
Ethiopian calendar	1946 – 1947
Hebrew calendar	5714 – 5715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2009 – 2010
- Shaka Samvat	1876 – 1877
- Kali Yuga	5055 – 5056
Holocene calendar	11954
Iranian calendar	1332 – 1333
Islamic calendar	1373 – 1374
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 29 (昭和 29年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2614 (皇紀2614年)
Julian calendar	1999
Korean calendar	4287
Thai solar calendar	2497

January-February

January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
January 3 - Jim Ross, WWE commentator
January 4 - Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott, English professional poker player
January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
January 12 - Howard Stern, American radio host
January 14 - Tom Cheney, American cartoonist
January 17 - Robert F. Kennedy, son of Robert F Kennedy
January 19 - Katey Sagal, American actress and singer
January 19 - Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler
January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
January 23 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show hostess, producer, and publisher
January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist

February 1 - Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
February 2 - Christie Brinkley, American model
February 7 - Dieter Bohlen, German singer
February 9 - Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur
February 9 - Kevin Warwick, Cyborg Scientist
February 11 - Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
February 13 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (d. 1989)
February 15 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist
February 18 - John Travolta, American actor
February 19 - Socrates, Brazilian footballer
February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
February 20 - Patty Hearst, American heiress and kidnapping victim
February 23 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
February 25 - John Doe, American musician

March-April

March 1 - Ron Howard, American actor, director, producer
March 4 - François Fillon, Prime Minister of France
March 4 - Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
March 4 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer
March 4 - Willie Thorne, English snooker player
March 4 - Adrian Zmed, American actor and dancer
March 6 - Harald Schumacher, German football goalkeeper
March 8 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
March 9 - Bobby Sands, Irish Republican, Long Kesh hunger striker
March 13 - The Baroness Amos, British politician
March 15 - Craig Wasson, American actor
March 16 - Nancy Wilson, American singer, musician, and actress
March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, British actress
March 18 - James F. Reilly, astronaut
March 24 - Robert Carradine, American actor
March 26 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
March 29 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
April 2 - Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese musician
April 5 - Guy Bertrand. Canadian linguist and radio personality.
April 5 - Murray Campbell. Multitalented genius and good guy born In New Zealand , later moves to Australia
April 7 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born actor
April 7 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
April 8 - John Schneider, American actor ("Dukes of Hazzard")
April 9 - Dennis Quaid, American actor
April 10 - Anacani, Mexican-born American singer The Lawrence Welk Show
April 10 - Peter MacNicol, American actor
April 14 - Bruce Sterling, American science fiction writer
April 15 - Seka, American actress
April 16 - Ellen Barkin, American actress
April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver
April 26 - Alan Hinkes, British Mountaineer
April 28 - Robert Sargent Shriver III, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver
April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
April 29 - Jake Burton Carpenter, founder of Burton Snowboards

May-June

May 1 - Archie Norman, British politician and businessman
May 5 - Dave Spector, American television personality and commentator
May 7 - Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
May 7 - Amy Heckerling, American film director
May 8 - David Keith, American actor
May 8 - John Michael Talbot, American musician
May 19 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
May 27 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
June 5 - Nancy Stafford, American actress and Christian author
June 9 - John Hagelin, American physicist and U.S. Presidential candidate
June 9 - Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada
June 15 - James Belushi, American actor
June 16 - Sergey Kuryokhin, a Russian piano player, avant-garde composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d.1996)
June 19 - Ted Coombs, American artist
June 20 - Michael Anthony, American bassist and founding member of the hard rock group Van Halen
June 20 - Ilan Ramon, Israeli Air Force, Israel first astronaut (d. 2003)
June 22 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
June 26 - Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
June 27 - Ron Kirk, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
June 28 - Ava Barber, country singer The Lawrence Welk Show
June 30 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)

July-August

July 5 - John Wright, New Zealand cricket captain
July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician
July 13 - Sezen Aksu, popular Turkish female singer
July 16 - Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
July 17 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
July 25 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
July 27 - Philippe Alliot, French Formula One driver
July 28 - Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President
August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidate
August 2 - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
August 4 - Uwe Wittwer, Swiss artist
August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
August 12 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
August 12 - Pat Metheny, American jazz guitarist.
August 13 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player
August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
August 15 - Mary Jo Salter, American poet
August 16 - James Cameron, Canadian-born film director
August 17 - Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian/Irish writer
August 20 - Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey, music video producer (d. 2007)
August 20 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster
August 21 - Ivan Stang, American author and publisher
August 23 - Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
August 25 - Elvis Costello, British singer
August 29 - István Cserháti, Hungarian keyboardist (P. Box) (d. 2005)
August 31 - Caroline Cossey, English model

September-October

September 1 - Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
September 10 - Mark W. Everson, incoming President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross
September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
September 17 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
September 18 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
September 21 - Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
September 23 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
September 26 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
September 30 - Barry Williams, American actor

October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball player
October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
October 3 - Al Sharpton, American politician and minister
October 7 - Robert A. Schuller, American televangelist and son of Robert H. Schuller
October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
October 9 - John O'Hurley, American television actor and game show host
October 10 - David Lee Roth Lead Singer of Rock Band Van Halen
October 12 - Les Dennis, English television presenter and actor
October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
October 15 - Tanya Roberts, American actress
October 15 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
October 23 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director
October 24 - Mike Rounds, Governor of South Dakota

November-December

November 2 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
November 3 - Brigitte Lin, actress
November 3 - Adam Ant, English singer
November 3 - Kathy Kinney, American actress and comedienne
November 6 - Catherine Crier, American television journalist
November 7 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
November 8 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
November 8 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British author
November 13 - Chris Noth, American actor
November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
November 14 - Yanni, Greek musician
November 14 - Willie Hernández, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
November 15 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
November 16 - Andrea Barrett, American author
November 16 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004)
November 23 - Bruce Hornsby, American singer
November 27 - Patricia McPherson, American actress

December 1 - Bob Goen, American television personality and game show host
December 2 - Dan Butler, American actor
December 2 - Stone Phillips, American television journalist
December 7 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and murderer
December 10 - Jack Hues, English musician
December 11 - Jermaine Jackson, American singer
December 11 - Prachanda, Communist leader
December 14 - Ib Andersen, Danish dancer
December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
December 20 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
December 20 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
December 21 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
December 24 - José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician, President 1994-1998
December 25 - Annie Lennox, British singer
December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racer (d. 2006)
December 28 - Denzel Washington, American actor
December 31 - Alex Salmond, Scottish politician

Unknown dates

Sid Meier, American computer game designer
Pat Metheny, American Jazz Great
Albert Oehlen, German painter
Nenad Prokic, Serbian playwright
Ray Ratto, sports columnist

Deaths

January-June

January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
January 20 - Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
January 31 - Edwin Armstrong, electrical engineer (b. 1890)
February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
March 7 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
April 17 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. 1900)
May 6 - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (b. 1880)
May 15 - William March, American writer and soldier (b. 1893)
May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
May 25 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
April 10 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (b. 1862)
April 28 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
June 7 - Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)

July-December

July 3 - Reginald Maarsh, American artist (b. 1898)
July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859)
July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
July 13 - Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (b. 1880)
July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
August 24 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)
November 3 - Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
November 16 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (b. 1874)
November 28 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
November 29 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
December 8 - Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (b. 1894)
December 23 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
December 30 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)

Ship events

Nobel prizes

Physics - Max Born, Walther Bothe
Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
Literature - Ernest Hemingway
Peace - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Fields Medalists

Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre

Notes

People of the year 1954 at Familypedia

6 people were born in 1954

	Father	Mother	Age mother at birth
Rina Bierman (1954-)
John Douglas Evan Wong	Evan Wong	Christine Patricia Neilsen
Karen Kay Glass (1954-2004)	Ira Van Glass (?-?)	Marjorie Ruth Carter (?-2008)
Cynthia Sue Gubser (1954)	Robert H Gubser (1918)	Mona Lee Morelock (1922-1989)	3232
Robyn Elizabeth Hoy (1954-1954)	Francis Albert Hoy (1903-?)	Pearl Elizabeth Jamieson (1914-1954)
Frans Tol (1954-)	Jan Tol (1921-)	Catharina A.M. Rood (1925-1975)	2929

2 children were born to the 4 women born in 1954

37 people died in 1954

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Henrietta Albury (1878-1954)	Henry Albert Albury (1852-1878)	Caroline Allen Unicomb (1857-1952)	7676
Alice May Avard (1892-1954)	David John Avard (1865-1944)	Martha Jane Wright (1871-1940)	6262
Albert Solomon Bennett (?-1954)
Märtha of Sweden (1901-1954)	O. Carl W. of Sweden (1861-1951)	Ingeborg of Denmark (1878-1958)	5353
Mary Emma Boycan (1866-1954)	George M. Boycan (c1844-)	Nancy Jane Hansbrow (c1845-)	8888
Mary Catherine Burgoon (1859-1954)	John Burgoon (c1800-?)	Ann Geissinger (c1831-?)	9595
Charles Joseph Doggett (1871-1954)	William Doggett (1830-1911)	Eliza Delany (c1831-1913)	8383
Friedrich Leonhard Dombacher (1911-1954)	Johann Andreas Dombacher (1877-1945)	Maria Barbara Bach (1877-aft1911)	4343
May Henrietta Dyson (1896-1954)	Samuel Dyson (1854-1927)	Violet Elizabeth Eves (1879-1912)	5858
Anna Louise Egger (1865-1954)	Daniel Egger (?-?)	Margaretta Kohler (1833-1912)	8989
Elsie May Eggins (1885-1954)	Albert William Eggins (1851-1929)	Sophia Page (1858-1940)	6969
Susannah Jane Fernance (1863-c1954)	Joseph Fernance (1841-1916)	Emily Baker (1838-1914)	9191
Edmund Cecil Francis (1880-1954)	Alfred Francis (1854-1938)	Esther Jane Cramp (1859-1939)	7474
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954)	John Maurice Franklin (1848-1931)	Susannah Margart Eleanor Lampe (1850-1938)	7575
Fanny Fuller (1871-c1954)	John Fuller (1822-1873)	Frances Buss (1827-1887)	8383
… further results

956 people lived in 1954

	Father	Mother
George Ahrens (c1886-1970)	Charles Ahrens (c1849-c1935)	Elizabeth T Turner (?-?)
Henrietta Albury (1878-1954)	Henry Albert Albury (1852-1878)	Caroline Allen Unicomb (1857-1952)
Rosa Algeo (1883-1965)	Charles Lockhart Algeo (1857-1943)	Fanny Crossingham (1856-1943)
Bertha Marion Allen (1872-1967)	Thomas Allen (?-?)	Mary Unknown (?-?)
Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)	Carl David Anderson (1878)	Emma Adolfina Ajaxson (1878)
Ethel May Anlezark (1889-1967)	Louis Napoleon Anlezark (1863-1951)	Elizabeth Susan Baker (c1864-1942)
Minnie Victoria Anlezark (1883-1964)	Joseph Wilson Anlezark (1845-c1932)	Amanda Jane Thompson (1855-c1933)
Adella May Anthoney (1907-1990)	Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Esther Louisa Long (1871-1946)
Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Richard Anthoney (c1837-1929)	Ann Betts (c1846-1902)
Ellen Anthoney (c1868-1963)	Richard Anthoney (c1837-1929)	Ann Betts (c1846-1902)
Robert John Anthoney (c1894-1958)	Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Esther Louisa Long (1871-1946)
Catherine Apps (c1875-c1956)
Ruby Apps (1906-1991)	William Apps (1861-1941)	Olive Mary Hannah Crouch (1877-1926)
Arthur James Arnall (1878-1968)	Thomas Arnall (1843-1913)	Mary Ann Baker (1851-1881)
Catherine Violet Austin (1897-1968)	Frank Urquhart Austin (c1854-1916)	Catherine Levingston (1856-1942)
… further results

Events of the year 1954 at Familypedia

4 people were married in 1954.

	Joined with
Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004)	Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924-1992)+Peter Shand Kydd (1925-2006)
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924-1992)	Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004)+Raine McCorquodale (1929)
Anna W. Spruit (1929-)	Jack Tol (1927-)
Jack Tol (1927-)	Anna W. Spruit (1929-)

There were 0 military battles in 1954.

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Events of 1954

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January–June

July–December

Ship events

Nobel Prizes

Fields Medalists

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Events of 1954

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Fictional

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Unknown dates

Deaths

January-June

July-December

Ship events

Nobel prizes

Fields Medalists