* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer and musician

* 1954 – Thom Bray, American actor

* 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand director

* 1954 – Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1954 – Derek Warwick, English race car driver

* 1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sportscaster

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

* 1954 – Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player ( d. 2001 )

In 1954 – 55, Australia's batsmen had no answer to the pace of Frank Tyson and Statham.

* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer

* 1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer

Robert Pirsig married Nancy Ann James on May 10, 1954.

* Children ( 8 ): Gwendolyn Gail ( 1935 – 1976 ), Sue ( 1937 – 1978 ), Bill ( 1939 – 1962 ), Cathy Ann ( 1943 – 1947 ), Arlo Davy ( 1947 –), Joady Ben ( 1948 –), Nora ( 1950 –), Lorinna Lynn ( 1954 – 1973 )

On November 30, 1954, a 4 kg piece of what became known as the Hodges Meteorite crashed through the roof of an Oak Grove house, bounced off a radio, and badly bruised Mrs. Ann Hodges, who was taking an afternoon nap.

Julie Ann Brown ( born August 31, 1954 ) is an American actress, comedienne, screen / television writer, singer-songwriter, television director.

In the spring of 1954, ETRC moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and on May 16 of that year it began its operation as a " network ".

Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC ( born 13 March 1954 ) is the eighth and current UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Ann " Annie " Lennox, OBE ( born 25 December 1954 ) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.

Gale Ann Norton ( born March 11, 1954 ) served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

Judi Ann " Judith " Stish Giuliani ( born December 16, 1954 ) is a registered nurse, fundraiser for charitable organizations, former Managing Director of Changing Our World, founding board member of the Twin Towers Fund, and the wife of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Colson's first marriage with Nancy Billings, in 1953, bore three children: Wendell Ball II ( born 1954 ), Christian Billings ( 1956 ) and Emily Ann ( 1958 ).

He married Ann Tindall in 1954 ; they had a son and a daughter.

* Memorial at Arbor Crest Cemetery, created by sculptor Carlton W. Angell, dedicated to the Four Chaplains in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1954.

Smith married Ann Cleavinger in 1954, shortly before his deployment overseas with the Air Force.

In 1954, Schlesinger married Rachel Line Mellinger ( born February 27, 1930 – died October 11, 1995 ); they had eight children: Cora ( 1955 ), Charles ( 1956 ), Ann ( 1958 ), William ( 1959 ), Emily ( 1961 ), Thomas ( 1964 ), Clara ( 1966 ), and James ( 1970 ).

Nancy Lamoureux Wilson ( born March 16, 1954 ) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who, with her older sister Ann and lead guitarist Roger Fisher, became the core of the Seattle / Vancouver rock band Heart.

In 1954 he married Susan Ann Schroll, who was a fellow student at the University of Wyoming.

* ( source: ) There is a 1954 edition, Ann F. Beach, et al., similar title and a 1956 edition, Joyce Alsop.

In 1954, Hopkins married Prudence Ann Balchin, a daughter of author Nigel Balchin.

In 1954, Kees separated from his wife Ann, whose alcoholism led to a psychotic episode triggered by watching the Army – McCarthy hearings on television.

* The Student Prince ( 1954 ), based on the famous operetta, with Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, and the singing voice of Mario Lanza.

After the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sponsored a successful national trial of Jonas Salk's vaccine in Ann Arbor, Michigan ( 1954 ), PHS had released licensing standards for the vaccine and approved six manufacturers to begin production.

It is known that his son George died in 1954, and that Mary Ann and her family survived into the 20th century, so his son Edward John Murphy and two further stepsons must have died before 1893.

She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill, with whom she had two children, Ann Auriol ( born 1943 ) and Piers Auriol ( born 1954 ).

Ann Waldron, in her book Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist makes the case that Carter crusaded for racial equality, but hedged on condemning segregation and after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, he attacked intransigent White Citizens ' Council, but supported only gradual integration.