* 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

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

At Chicago, Cohen completed his master's degree in mathematics in 1954 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1958, under supervision of the Professor of Mathematics, Antoni Zygmund.

At one time Parma had a regular train station, but service was discontinued in 1954, and the old train station building was torn down.

At 18: 59 on 13th July, 1954, the reactor reached critical mass and sustained Sweden's first nuclear reaction.

At the Geneva Conference of 1954 France and the Communists agreed to divide Vietnam and hold elections in 1956.

At the 1954 general election Fianna Fáil lost power.

At first in Cochin China in 1946, but he was appointed to be responsible for the Central Office of South Vietnam from 1951 until 1954.

At the 35th Annual General Meeting in August 1954 the chairman advised the profound regret of the board and all associated with the company, including the users of the some 65, 000 vehicles which had been made since 1946, for their joint circumstances.

At the end of 1954, in England and Wales, there were 1, 069 men in prison for homosexuality, with a mean age of 37.

At a 1954 meeting of the Spaceflight Committee of the American Rocket Society, von Braun proposed placing a satellite into orbit using the Redstone with clusters of small solid-fuel rockets on top.

At London Heathrow in 1954

Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as " Roll With Me, Henry ", " At Last ", " Tell Mama ", " Something's Got a Hold on Me ", and " I'd Rather Go Blind " for which she wrote the lyrics.

The 39 syndicated episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed using Electronicam ( as well as the daily five minute syndicated series Les Paul & Mary Ford At Home in 1954 – 55 ), but with the introduction of a practical videotape recorder only one year away, the Electronicam system never saw widespread use.

* 1954 " Sunny Land " b / w " Standing At The Crossroads " ( Flair 1057 )

At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, notably Clifford Brown on the 1954 live album Dinah Jams, and also recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, and Ben Webster.

At the company's inception in 1954, the plant covered and together with the Milwaukee plant had an annual production capacity of 350, 000 cars.

At least one 1954 penny was struck, apparently for private internal purposes at the Royal Mint, but it was not until 1961 that there was a need for more pennies to be minted, and production continued each year until 1967, and after ( as pennies continued to be minted with the date 1967 until 1970 ).

At the 1954 / 55 edition of the Hastings Congress, he shared first place with Keres.

At Amsterdam 1954, he was again on second board, scored 9 / 12, and took the individual bronze medal.

At the NIMH in 1954, with the desire of isolating a brain from external stimulation, he devised the first isolation tank, a dark soundproof tank of warm salt water in which subjects could float for long periods in sensory isolation.

Roots of this movement can perhaps be traced to some of Bradford Angier's books, such as At Home in the Woods ( 1951 ) and We Like it Wild ( 1963 ), or perhaps even more compellingly to the 1954 publication of Helen and Scott Nearing's book, Living the Good Life.

* " At Amsterdam in 1954 he scored 96. 4 % on fourth board and won another game so brilliant against Šajtar of Czechoslovakia that the Soviet non-playing captain, Kotov, told to me that it was ' a true Soviet game.

* Isolation At Eyam ; a play in one act for women by Joyce Dennys, published by French, 1954

At sixteen he was awarded the New York Philharmonic's Young Composers ' Award and the John Harms Chorus premiered his choral work O Filii et Filiae at Town Hall ( 2 May 1954 ).